Describer

Gilpin, DiCroce, and Carpenter 2006

Time

Cretaceous Early

Classification

Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Cedar Mountain Formation, Yellow Cat Member, Utah, US

Info

Possible basal hadrosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of eastern Utah

Carpenter & Ishida (2010) Early and “Middle” Cretaceous Iguanodonts in Time and Space Journal of Iberian Geology 36 (2) 145-164

Cedrorestes crichtoni Gilpin, DiCroce and Carpenter 2006

Locality

north of Moab, Utah, USA.

Horizon

near top of Yellow Cat Member, Cedar Mountain Formation.

Age

late Barremian (Ludvigson et al., 2009 ; Zigler et al., 2009).

Comments

The holotype ilium retains the deep profile seen in basal ankylopollexians (e.g., Camptosaurus), but has a prominent flange-like lateral process considered an autapomorphy of hadrosaurids (Sereno 1999, supplemental material).

Such a flange is absent in the hadrosauroid Equijubus, which also retains a deep ilium, suggesting that Cedrorestes is more derived than Gilpin et al. (2006) originally suggested. The preacetabular process is short, being about 25% of the ilium length. The ischial peduncle is slightly expanded laterally onto the postacetabular process. The postacetabular notch is broad and shallow