[D] Koutalisaurus kohlerorum [sG] [T]
Describer
Prieto-Marquez, Gaete, Rivas, Galobart and Boada 2006
Time
Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Tremp Formation, Les Llaus, near the town of Abella de la Conca, Lleida Province, Catalonia, Spain
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Holotype
IPS SRA 27 very elongate dentary with a long edentulous portion that is steeply curved down
A single dentary, previously referred to Pararhabdodon isonensis, was collected at a site that is both stratigraphically and geographically separated from the type locality of Pararhabdodon isonensis. The dentary is the holotype of Koutalisaurus kohlerorum, on the basis of a uniquely elongated and medially projecting edentulous portion. This results in a distance between the symphysis and the lateral wall of the dentary that is three times the mediolateral breadth of the bone. K. kohlerorum shares with other hadrosauroids a tooth row that extends caudal to the apex of the coronoid process and, with Hadrosauridae, a tooth row that is, in occlusal view, straight and parallel to the lateral face of the dentary.
Etymology
Koutali is the Greek for \\\'spoon,\\\' in reference to the extreme medial extension of the edentulous region of the dentary, which would have given a \\\'spoon-like\\\' appearance to the jaws of the animal when both dentaries were articulated + Gr. sauros; lizard. K. kohlerorum: Species named in honor of Terry and Mary Kohler, for their support of research in vertebrate paleontology.
Prieto-Marquez, Gaete, Rivas, Galobart and Boada 2006
Time
Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Tremp Formation, Les Llaus, near the town of Abella de la Conca, Lleida Province, Catalonia, Spain
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Holotype
IPS SRA 27 very elongate dentary with a long edentulous portion that is steeply curved down
A single dentary, previously referred to Pararhabdodon isonensis, was collected at a site that is both stratigraphically and geographically separated from the type locality of Pararhabdodon isonensis. The dentary is the holotype of Koutalisaurus kohlerorum, on the basis of a uniquely elongated and medially projecting edentulous portion. This results in a distance between the symphysis and the lateral wall of the dentary that is three times the mediolateral breadth of the bone. K. kohlerorum shares with other hadrosauroids a tooth row that extends caudal to the apex of the coronoid process and, with Hadrosauridae, a tooth row that is, in occlusal view, straight and parallel to the lateral face of the dentary.
Etymology
Koutali is the Greek for \\\'spoon,\\\' in reference to the extreme medial extension of the edentulous region of the dentary, which would have given a \\\'spoon-like\\\' appearance to the jaws of the animal when both dentaries were articulated + Gr. sauros; lizard. K. kohlerorum: Species named in honor of Terry and Mary Kohler, for their support of research in vertebrate paleontology.