Uteodon

Ute tooth

• Ute · English (Native American ethnonym) · the Ute people, for whom Utah is named
• odon · Greek · tooth

Uteodon combines "Ute", the Native American people whose homeland includes what is now Utah and Colorado, with the Greek word for "tooth". The name refers to the Ute people and to the state of Utah, where the fossils were found. The type species, U. aphanoecetes, was first described as a species of Camptosaurus and was moved to its own genus in 2011.

Named by

McDonald

Year named

2011

Period

Late Jurassic

Stages

Kimmeridgian – Tithonian

Found in

Morrison Formation, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, USA

Uteodon is a small-to-medium herbivorous ornithopod, related to Camptosaurus. Its type species was originally named Camptosaurus aphanoecetes. Its exact age range within the Late Jurassic is approximate.