Penelopognathus
"wild duck jaw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Penelopognathus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we know
- Named by Godefroit, Li, and Shang, 2005.
- Body length estimated at about 5 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Penelopognathus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.