PRIODONTOGNATHUS
a herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of England.
Pronunciation: PRIE-o-don-TOG-na-thus
Meaning: Saw tooth jaw
Author/s: Seeley (
1875)
Synonyms: Iguanodon phillipsii
First Discovery: Uncertain (Yorkshire?)
Discovery Chart Position: #38
Priodontognathus phillipsii
(Phillips' saw-tooth jaw)
Etymology
Priodontognathus is derived from the Greek "prion" (saw), "odont-" (tooth) and "gnathos" (jaw), named for part of a jaw with serrated, scelidosaur-like teeth.
The
species epithet,
phillipsii, honours geology professor John Phillips.
Synonyms
Iguanodon phillipsii (Seeley, 1869)
Discovery
The remains of
Priodontognathus were discovered in the Calcareous Grit Formation (possibly on the Yorkshire coast), England, United Kingdom.
The
holotype (SMC B53408) is a maxilla (a tooth-bearing bone of the upper jaw).
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian
Age range: 161-156 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
Priodontognathus
phillipsii
References
• Seeley HG (1869) "Index to the fossil remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia from the Secondary Strata".
Cambridge University Press [coins Iguanodon Phillipsii.]
• Seeley HG (1875) On the maxillary bone of a new dinosaur (Priodontognathus phillipsii), contained in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge.
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 31: 439-443. [Iguanodon Phillipsii is renamed Priodontognathus.]
• Seeley HG (1893) "On
Omosaurus phillipsii".
Annual Report, Yorkshire Philosophical Society: 52-57. [names Omosaurus phillipsii. Confusingly, despite sharing the same species name, they are based on unrelated specimens.]
• Galton PM (1980) "
Priodontognathus phillipsii (Seeley), an ankylosaurian
dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic (or possibly Lower Cretaceous) of England".
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaöntologie, Monatshefte: 477-489.
• Carpenter K (2001) "Phylogenetic analysis of the Ankylosauria". Page 455-483 in Carpenter (ed.) "
The Armored Dinosaurs".
• Vickaryous MK, Maryanska T and Weishampel DB (2004) "Ankylosauria". Page 363-392 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
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