Owenodon
Name: Owenodon
(Owen’s tooth).
Phonetic: O-wyn-o-don.
Named By: P. M. Galton - 2009.
Synonyms: Iguanodon hoggii.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopda.
Species: O. hoggi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: England.
Time period: Early Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial jaw with teeth.
Back in 1860 a partial lower jaw of a dinosaur was collected by A. J. Hogg, which later in 1874 was named as a species of Iguanodon, I. hoggi by Richard Owen. More than a hundred years later the jaw was thought to represent a European specimen of Camptosaurus, but later still in 2009 the jaw was used to create the genus Owenodon by Peter Galton.
Further reading
- Ornithischian dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian)
of England. - Special Papers in Palaeontology 68: 161–189.
- David B. Norman & Paul M. Barret - 2002.
- A new species of Camptosaurus (Ornithopoda:
Dinosauria) from
the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dinosaur National
Monument, Utah, and a biomechanical analysis of its forelimb. -
Annals of the Carnegie Museum 76: 227–263. - Kenneth
Carpenter & Yvonne Wilson. - 2008.
- A revised taxonomy of the iguanodont dinosaur genera and species.
- Cretaceous Research 29 (2): 192–216. - Gregory S.
Paul - 2008.
- Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from
England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus,
"Camptosaurus",
"Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from
Romania and elsewhere.
- Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(1):211-273. - P.
M. Galton - 2009.
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