Owenodon

Owen's tooth

• Owen · Modern English (personal name) · Richard Owen, English anatomist
• odon · Greek · tooth

Owenodon honours Sir Richard Owen, the English anatomist who coined the word "Dinosauria" and first described the fossil in 1874. It was originally named Iguanodon hoggii. Galton gave it its own genus in 2009. The "-odon" ending means "tooth" and refers to the fact that the type specimen is a partial lower jaw (dentary) with teeth.

Named by

Galton

Year named

2009

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Berriasian

Found in

Purbeck Group, Durlston Bay, Dorset, England, UK

A small basal iguanodontian ornithopod known from very fragmentary material (the type species is Owenodon hoggii, originally Iguanodon hoggii Owen, 1874). The material is generally regarded as too incomplete to diagnose, so the genus is usually treated as doubtful. I am less certain of the exact stratigraphic details.