Penelopognathus

Penelopognathus (meaning "wild duck jaw") is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur which lived in the Early Cretaceous Bayin-Gobi Formation in what is now China. The discovery of this taxon contributes to the hypothesis that hadrosauroids originated in Asia. The type species, Penelopognathus weishampeli, named after David Weishampel, was described by Godefroit, Li, and Shang in 2005, based on fragmentary jaw fossils.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Penelopognathus is referenced by 232 other articles, and connects out to Saurolophinae, Lambeosaurinae and Ornithopoda.

It is catalogued under topics including Albian dinosaurs, Dinosaur genera and Dinosaurs of China.

Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.

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Parent taxon: Hadrosauroidea

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taxon name: Penelopognathus
taxon rank: genus
time period: Early Cretaceous

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Its jaw is similar to that of Altirhinus and Probactrosaurus, suggesting that Penelopognathus was related to the two genera. Prieto-Márquez and Carrera Farias (2021) found that Telmatosaurus was the sister taxon to Penelopognathus, which was also found to be closely related to Lophorhothon, as opposed to Tethyshadros. Penelopognathus grew up to around long and around tall when fully grown.

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