Iguanacolossus fortis McDonald et al. 2010 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Alternative combination: Iguanacolosus fortis

Full reference: A. T. McDonald, J. I. Kirkland, D. D. DeBlieux, S. K. Madsen, J. Cavin, A. R. C. Milner, and L. Panzarin. 2010. New basal iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and the evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs. PLoS One 5(11):e14075:1-35

Belongs to Iguanacolossus according to W. Zheng et al. 2013

See also Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2016, Ji and Zhang 2022, Kirkland 2013, Kirkland et al. 2016, McDonald et al. 2010, Milàn et al. 2015, Prieto-Márquez 2011 and Rotatori et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UMNH VP 20205, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Don's Ridge North (UMNH VP Loc. 1206), which is in a Berriasian/Valanginian terrestrial mudstone/chert in the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Don's Ridge North (UMNH VP Loc. 1206)

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