Penelopognathus
Field photograph to come
Penelopognathus
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- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Godefroit et al. 2005
Field notes
About Penelopognathus
Penelopognathus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 113 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Penelopognathus, from China. Its fossils come from the Bayangobi Formation. It was named by Godefroit et al. in 2005.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
115 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Godefroit, H. Li, and C.-Y. Shang. 2005. A new primitive hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (P. R. China). Comptes Rendus Palevol 4(8):697-705