Craspedodon

Craspedodon
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Santonian
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Tooth from the holotype of C. lonzeensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: †Ornithischia
Clade: †Neornithischia
Clade: †Ceratopsia
Clade: †Neoceratopsia (?)
Genus: †Craspedodon
Dollo, 1883
Type species
†Craspedodon lonzeensis
Dollo, 1883
Synonyms
  • Craspedon Galton, 1980

Craspedodon (meaning 'edge tooth') is an extinct genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Glauconie de Lonzée Formation of Belgium. Only a single species, C. lonzeensis, is known.[1]

Discovery and naming

IRSN R 59 (left), a tooth from ISRNB R. 58 (middle) and IRSN R 105 (right)

The holotype, specimen IRSNB R. 58, which consists of two teeth, the paratype, specimen IRSN R 105, a tooth, and a referred specimen, IRSN R 59, a tooth, were all discovered in the Glauconie de Lonzée Formation, in Belgium.[2]

The teeth were initially compared to those of Iguanodon, and the species Craspedodon lonzeensis was named and described by Louis Dollo in 1883,[1] although it is considered a nomen dubium.[2]

Classification

Craspedodon was long thought to be an iguanodontian, but Godefroit & Lambert (2007) suggested that it was actually a neoceratopsian, perhaps closer to Ceratopsoidea than Protoceratopsidae.[2]

If the reidentification is correct, Craspedodon would be the first neoceratopsian known from Europe.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Dollo, L. (1883). "Note sur les restes de dinosauriens rencontrées dans le Crétacé supérieure de la Belgique", Bulletin du Musée royale d' Histoire naturelle de Belgique, 2: 205–221
  2. ^ a b c d Godefroit, Pascal; Lambert, Olivier (2007). "A re-appraisal of Craspedodon lonzeensis Dollo, 1883 from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium: the first record of a neoceratopsian dinosaur in Europe?". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre. 77: 83–93.
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