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Rhabdodon
Sign in to saveRhabdodon (meaning "fluted tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 72-69 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. The genus contains a single species, R. priscus. It is similar in build to a very robust "hypsilophodont" (non-iguanodont ornithopod), though all modern phylogenetic analyses find this to be an unnatural grouping, and Rhabdodon to be a basal member of Iguanodontia. It was large amongst its relatives, measuring long and weighing , with some specimens possibly reaching up to long.
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- Discovery and naming
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- Paleobiology
- Palaeoenvironment
- Villalba de la Sierra Formation
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Rhabdodon (meaning "fluted tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 72-69 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. The genus contains a single species, R. priscus. It is similar in build to a very robust "hypsilophodont" (non-iguanodont ornithopod), though all modern phylogenetic analyses find this to be an unnatural grouping, and Rhabdodon to be a basal member of Iguanodontia. It was large amongst its relatives, measuring long and weighing , with some specimens possibly reaching up to long.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|upright|Lectotype and paralectotype dentaries Rhabdodon is known from southern France, although fragmentary remains from eastern Spain have been assigned to the genus. Rhabdodon was large compared to its nearest relatives, and indeed one recent paper (Ősi et al., 2012) determined it is larger than the basal rhabdodontid status; from this they suggested that it actually experienced gigantism on the "mainland" and not insular dwarfism as previous suggested.