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PENELOPOGNATHUS
(pe-nel-o-po-nay-fus)
meaning: "Penelope's jaw"
Named By: P. Godefroit, H. Li, & C.inY. Shang in 2005
Time Period: Early Cretaceous
Location: Mongolia - Bayan Gobi Formation
Size: Unknown
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial jaw
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Iguanodontia | Hadrosauroidea |
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Penelopognathus ("wild duck jaw") is a genus of dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous. It was an iguanodont ancestral to hadrosaurids. Fossils have been found in the Bayin-Gobi Formation in what is now China. The type species, Penelopognathus weishampeli, was described by Godefroit, Li, and Shang in 2005, based on fragmentary jaw fossils.

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