Theiophytalia
THEE-oh-fie-TAY-lee-ah /ˌθiːoʊfaɪˈteɪliə/
Accepted genus
garden of the gods
- theios · Greek · of the gods, divine
- phytalia · Greek · garden, orchard
The name means "garden of the gods". It refers to the Garden of the Gods, a park near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The fossil skull was found there in 1878 and later described as a new genus. The type species is Theiophytalia kerri.
- Named by
- Brill and Carpenter
- Year named
- 2007
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stages
- Aptian – Albian
- Found in
- Lytle Formation, Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA
A basal iguanodontian (ornithopod) known from a single skull. Marsh originally referred it to Camptosaurus (as C. kerri) before it was given its own genus.