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DOLLODON

a plant-eating iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Belgium.
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Pronunciation: doll-O-don
Meaning: Louis Dollo's tooth
Author/s: Paul (2008)
Synonyms: Iguanodon mantelli
First Discovery: Bernissart, Belgium
Discovery Chart Position: #642

Dollodon bampingi

(Bamping's Dollo Tooth)Etymology
Dollodon is derived from "Dollo" (for Luis Dollo, who first described its remains) and the Greek "odon" (tooth). The species epithet, bampingi, honours popular science writer and research supporter Mr. Daniel Bamping.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian-Aptian
Age range: 130-122.5 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 6.5 meters
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: 1.5 tons
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Dollo M (1882) "Première note sur les dinosauriens de Bernissart". Bulletin de Museum Royal de Histoire Naturelles de Belgique 1, 161e180.
• Hooley RW (1925) "On the skeleton of Iguanodon atherfieldensis sp. nov., from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight)". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 81, 1e61.
• Norman DB (1986) "On the anatomy of Iguanodon atherfieldensis (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda)". Bulletin de L’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 56, 281e372.
• Paul GS (2006) "Turning the old into the new: a separate genus for the gracile iguanodont from the Wealden of England". In: Carpenter (ed.) "Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs".
• Paul GS (2008) "A revised taxonomy of the iguanodont dinosaur genera and species". Cretaceous Research 29(2): 192-216. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2007.04.009
• Carpenter K and Ishida Y (2010) "Early and "Middle" Cretaceous iguanodonts in time and space". Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2): 145-164. DOI: 10.5209/rev_JIGE.2010.v36.n2.3
• McDonald AT (2012) "The status of Dollodon and other basal iguanodonts (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Wealden beds (Lower Cretaceous) of Europe". Cretaceous Research 33(1). DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2011.03.002
• Paul GS (2010) "The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs".
• Norman DB (2012) "Iguanodontian Taxa (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Belgium" in Pascal Godefroit "Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems".
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Atkinson, L. "DOLLODON :: from DinoChecker's dinosaur archive".
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