Pteropelyx

Pteropelyx
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Campanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Clade:Dinosauria
Order:†Ornithischia
Suborder:†Ornithopoda
Family:†Hadrosauridae
Subfamily:†Lambeosaurinae
Genus:Pteropelyx
Cope, 1889
Species
  • P. grallipes Cope, 1889 (type)

Pteropelyx 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. 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 certainty.

See also

References

  • Brett-Surman, M.K., 1989. A revision of the Hadrosauridae (Reptilia: Ornithischia) and their evolution during the Campanian and Maastrichtian. Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.. pp. 1–272.
  • Cope, E.D. 1889. Notes on the Dinosauria of the Laramie. The American Naturalist 23:904-906.


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