Uteodon
Uteodon (meaning "Ute tooth") is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the late Jurassic period (Tithonian age) in what is now Uintah County, Utah. It is known from the middle of the Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation. The genus was named by Andrew T. McDonald in 2011 and the type species is U. aphanoecetes.
| Uteodon Temporal range: Late Jurassic, ~ | |
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| Skeleton at the Carnegie Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Clade: | †Ankylopollexia |
| Clade: | †Styracosterna |
| Genus: | †Uteodon McDonald, 2011 |
| Species: | †U. aphanoecetes |
| Binomial name | |
| †Uteodon aphanoecetes (Carpenter & Wilson, 2008) | |
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