Ponerosteus

Ponerosteus
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian
Holotype tibia of P. exogyrarum (National Museum in Prague)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Genus: †Ponerosteus
Olshevsky, 2000
Species:
†P. exogyrarum
Binomial name
†Ponerosteus exogyrarum
(Fritsch, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Iguanodon exogirarum Fritsch, 1878
  • Iguanodon exogyrarum (Fritsch, 1878) vide Chure & McIntosh, 1989
  • Iguanodon exogirarus Brinkmann, 1988
  • Procerosaurus Fritch, 1905 (preocccupied)
  • Procerosaurus exogirarum Brinkmann, 1988
  • Procerosaurus exogirarus Brinkmann, 1988

Ponerosteus is a dubious genus of extinct archosauromorph from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-aged) Korycanar Formation of the Czech Republic that was initially identified as a species of the dinosaur Iguanodon.[1]

The type, and currently only, species is P. exogyrarum.[2]

  1. ^ Fritsch, A. (1878). Die Reptilien und Fische der Böhmischen Kreideformation. Selbstverlag, Prague, 46 pp.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).