Obelignathus (meaning "Obelix jaw") is an extinct genus of rhabdodontomorph ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous 'Grès à Reptiles' Formation of France. The genus contains a single species, O. septimanicus, known from a right dentary. The species was initially classified as a species of the coeval Rhabdodon.
Obelignathus (meaning "Obelix jaw") is an extinct genus of rhabdodontomorph ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous 'Grès à Reptiles' Formation of France. The genus contains a single species, O. septimanicus, known from a right dentary. The species was initially classified as a species of the coeval Rhabdodon.
== Discovery and naming == The Obelignathus holotype specimen, MDE D30, was discovered in 1990 in outcrops of the 'Grès à Reptiles' Formation near Montouliers in Saint-Chinian commune of Hérault, southern France. The specimen consists of an isolated right dentary, missing the anterior (front) part.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).