Gideonmantellia

Gideon Mantell's (dinosaur)

• Gideon Mantell · English (personal name) · Gideon Mantell, 19th-century English geologist and palaeontologist
• -ia · Latin · Latinised suffix used to form a genus name

The name honours Gideon Mantell, the British geologist and palaeontologist who helped discover and describe some of the first known dinosaurs, including Iguanodon. The genus is a small ornithopod from Spain. The name is Mantell's name combined with the Latinised suffix "-ia", which makes it a "Gideon Mantell-ia" tribute.

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Teruel Province, Spain

A small basal ornithopod dinosaur from Spain. The type species is Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae. I am not certain of the exact authorship, year, formation or stage, so those fields are left blank.