Cedrorestes

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Cedrorestes
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous

Extinct (fossil)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Ornithopoda
Infraorder:	Iguanodontia
Superfamily:	Hadrosauroidea
Genus:	Cedrorestes
Species:	C. crichtoni

Binomial name

Cedrorestes crichtoni
Gilpin et al., 2006

Cedrorestes is the name assigned to a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah. It is based on an incomplete skeleton which was found in the Cedar Mountain Formation.

The etymology of the generic name is, from Latin, cedrus (cedr-); "cedar" + Greek oros-; "mountain", after the Cedar Mountain formation, where the fossil was found + Greek suffix ending -etes; "dweller". The epithet crichtoni is after Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and The Lost World.

The type species, Cedrorestes crichtoni, was described in 2006 by Gilpin et al.

[edit] References

Gilpin, D., T. DiCroce, and K. Carpenter. 2006. A possible new basal hadrosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of eastern Utah; pp. 79-89 in K. Carpenter (ed.), Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.