Ponerosteus Ponerosteus

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ponerosteus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Unknown locality
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

Ponerosteus is a dubious genus of extinct archosauromorph from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-aged) Korycanar Formation of the Czech Republic that was initially identified as a species of the dinosaur Iguanodon.

The type, and currently only, species is P. exogyrarum.

What we know

  • Named by (Fritsch, 1878).