Owenodon

Owenodon is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from a partial lower jaw discovered in Early Cretaceous-aged rocks of Dorset, United Kingdom, and possibly also Romania and Spain. The first and only definitive specimen was found in the Lulworth Formation of the Purbeck Limestone Group, dating to the middle Berriasian stage.

Owenodon

The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DryomorphaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 141 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya141 Mya149.7 Mya136.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Owenodon on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

6 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Lower Bauxite — 46.95°N, 22.40°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLulworth — 50.62°N, 2.25°W

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The named rock units Owenodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Owenodon and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Owenodon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Owenodon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Owenodon

Credit
The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Owenodon was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDryomorpha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Galton 2009