[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index]

Re: American Iguanodons stay away from me

Cliff Green wrote:

(Thanks to Thomas for the translation).

    What kind of record do we have of North American Iguanodons? I know we
have some in the Cedar Mountain Formation, but have any of them been
discribed, and more importantly, have any of them been discovered with a
goodly portion of skull material? I have a non finished iguanodon sculpture
laying around, that needs something more than looking like Aladar from
Disneys " Dinosaur ".


Early Cretaceous iguanodont(o)ids from North America...

What I can say is that good skull material is known for _Iguanodon lakotaensis_, which comes from the Lakota Formation of South Dakota. Norman (1998) claimed that _I. lakotaensis_ is indistinguishable from the European species (now type species) _I.bernissartensis_, thereby making it a junior synonym. I think _Camptosaurus depressus_ may also hail from the Lakota Formation, but I don't know much about this species. Nor do I know the current status of Bakker's "Garden of the Gods" iguanodontid.

_Planicoxa venenica_, described by DiCroce and Carpenter (2001), is an iguanodontoid from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah; but no skull material is known for this guy. _Iguanodon ottingeri_ comes from the same formation, but it's known only from teeth, and is considered a nomen dubium. I've heard that there is at least one other iguanodontid from this formation, so far undescribed.

Cheers

Tim

References:

Bakker, R.T. (1998). Dinosaur Mid-Life Crisis: The Jurassic-Cretaceous Transition in Wyoming and Colorado. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 14: 67-77.

DiCroce, T. and Carpenter, K. (2001). New Ornithopod from the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Eastern Utah. In: Tanke, D.H. and Carpenter, K. (Eds). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life:
New Research inspired by the Paleontology of Philip J. Currie, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana, p.183-196.

Norman, D. B. (1998). On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). 3. A new species of iguanodontid dinosaur. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122: 291-348.