Penelopognathus

Name: Penelopognathus ‭(‬Penelope’s jaw‭)‬.
Phonetic: Pe-nel-o-po-nay-fus.
Named By: P.‭ ‬Godefroit,‭ ‬H.‭ ‬Li,‭ & ‬C.-Y.‭ ‬Shang‭ ‬-‭ ‬2005.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ornithopoda,‭ ‬Iguanodontia,‭ ‬Hadrosauroidea.
Species: P.‭ ‬weishampeli‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown.
Known locations: Mongolia‭ ‬-‭ ‬Bayan Gobi Formation.
Time period: Aptian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial jaw.

       Penelopognathus is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in Mongolia during the early Cretaceous.‭ ‬Unfortunately,‭ ‬because only a partial jaw of this dinosaur has been recovered,‭ ‬not much is known about Penelopognathus.

Further reading
-‭ ‬A new primitive hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia‭ (‬P.‭ ‬R.‭ ‬China‭)‬.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Comptes Rendus Palevol‭ ‬4‭(‬8‭)‬:697-705.‭ ‬-‭ ‬P.‭ ‬Godefroit,‭ ‬H.‭ ‬Li,‭ & ‬C.-Y.‭ ‬Shang‭ ‬-‭ ‬2005.



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