Penelopognathus

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Penelopognathus
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Infraorder: Iguanodontia
Superfamily: Hadrosauroidea
Genus: Penelopognathus
Binomial name
Penelopognathus weishampeli
Godefroit, Li, and Shang in 2005

Penelopognathus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an iguanodont ancestral to hadrosaurids which lived in what is now Mongolia. The type species, Penelopognathus weishampeli, was described by Godefroit, Li, and Shang in 2005, based on jaw fossils.

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