Pteropelyx

Description

Source: Wikipédia

Pteropelyx (meaning "winged pelvis") is a dubious genus of Late Cretaceous hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Judith River Formation of Montana, named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1889. Historically, several species were assigned to it, all based on extremely fragmentary remains, but there is no evidence to support these assignments, making the type species, P. grallipes, the only valid species. Most of these other species' remains likely belong to better-known hadrosaurs, such as Lambeosaurus and Gryposaurus. It is probable that the type material of Pteropelyx, a skeleton lacking a skull, is from Corythosaurus (making Pteropelyx its senior synonym) (Brett-Surman, 1989), but the lack of a skull makes such a synonymy impossible to determine with sure certainty as no certain evidence pertain to prove the organ to be present.

Information(s)

Source: The Paleobiology Database

• Attibution: (Cope 1889)¹⁵⁶⁸¹
• Statut: nomen dubium, voir Hadrosauridae
• Nom commun:
• Longueur (en m):  10 to < 100
• Largeur (en m):  1.0 to < 10
• Hauteur (en m):  1.0 to < 10
• Poids (en m): de  1000 kg à  10000 kg
• Environnement de découverte: terrestrial
• Mode de vie: terrestrial
• Mode de locomotion: actively mobile
• Vision: ?
• Alimentation: herbivore
• Mode de reprodution: oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile
• Classification: Hadrosauridae >> Hadrosauroidea >> Hadrosauriformes >> Styracosterna >> Dryomorpha >> Iguanodontia >> Clypeodonta >> Ornithopoda >> Cerapoda >> Genasauria >> Ornithischia >> Dinosauria
• Période: Campanian (de -83.60 Ma à -72.20 Ma)
• Espèce(s):
  • Pteropelyx grallipes (nomen dubium, voir Hadrosauridae)¹⁵⁶⁸¹
• Specimen(s):

  Pas de spécimen dans la base de donnée.

• Autre(s) Taxon(s) trouvés dans la litterature:
  • Pteropelyx grallipes n. nomen dubium Hadrosauridae
• Découverte(s): 1 occcurrences
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  • États-Unis
    • Montana
      • Blaine
        • Formation Judith River
          • Hadrosauridae identifié comme Pteropelyx grallipes n. gen. n. sp.: ? ¹⁵⁶⁸¹
• Historique des modifications:

Pas de modification récente.