Iguanodon ottingeri

  This is a different specie than Ottingeri but it shows the characteristic body form and size.

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DESCRIBER                     
Galton & Jensen,1979

TIME:
Cretaceous Early Albian

CLASSIFICATION
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Iguanodontia NOMINA DUBIA

DIET
Herbivore

FOSSILSITE
Cedar Mountain Formation, (Dalton Wells Quarry) Utah, US

INFO
Teeth.

He had been in sourhtern Utah checking out rock hounds and collection sites and came to this particular family. They had been alternately friendly and stand-offish with him, fearing that he would somehow get the best of them - which he probably would have done if it had been possible.  This time he was armed with a secret that he calculated would turn them into lap dogs. It did.

He had in his truck some beautiful reproductions of several dinosaur bones, among them the mandible (jaw) of an Antodemus.  At an appropriate time in the festivities stimulated by his visit, he told them that he had to go to the truck for a minute, would they mind? Of course they wouldn’t, so he went. When he returned, he had the shiny black bones and with his usual ceremonial style offered them to the family as a token of his appreciation of the information they had given him earlier. (an in a hope that they would just continue to do that in the future).

They were undone by the gift. truly. In a fit of grandiosity, they hunted quickly for an appropriate gesture and landed on the idea of cooking him dinner while he waited. He wasn’t too sure about that because he ahd seen the livestock and pets that had free rein in the kitchen, tables, couch and so on. But he had no level with which to beg of. He was stuck. So with visions of salmonella,, he told them he’d be happy, gulp, to have dinner with them.

At which point Mrs. X descended on the kitchen and gve it a cleaning up that had been needed for several years.  She threw out piles of things and managed to get down to the dining table. It had such a crust of stuff on it, that she had to use a large butcher knife to scrape the crap off.  Then she scrubbed it as best she could, but some of the finer flora was still there. Dad swallowed hard, waited, did his best to the dinner and did not get ptomaine poisoning, but he shuddered every time he told the story of that table and the butcher knife.

CAMARASAURUS lewisi CATHETOSAURUS lewisi DYSTYLOSAURUS HYPSILOPHODON wielandi IGUANODON ottingeri PALAEOPTERYX SUPERSAURUS vivianae TORVOSAURUS tanneri Jensen vide Olshevsky, 1991 ULTRASAUROS macintoshi

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