Uteodon

Uteodon (meaning "Ute tooth") is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the late Jurassic period (Tithonian age) in what is now Uintah County, Utah. It is known from the middle of the Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation. The genus was named by Andrew T. McDonald in 2011 and the type species is U. aphanoecetes. ==History== The holotype specimen, CM 11337 (a virtually complete skeleton minus the skull and tail), was assigned to Camptosaurus medius (Marsh, 1894) by Charles W. Gilmore in 1925. When C. medius was synonymised with Camptosaurus dispar in 1980, the holotype was seen to probably represent a new, then unnamed, species of Camptosaurus. The species Camptosaurus aphanoecetes was first described in 2008 by Carpenter and Wilson. In 2011, it was assigned to the new genus Uteodon. In 2015, the Uteodon braincase was referred to Dryosaurus, and Uteodon and Cumnoria were synonymized with Camptosaurus, as C. aphanoectes and C. prestwichii, respectively.

== Description == thumb|250px|Size comparison based on Hartman (2013) Based on the holotype and the related genus Camptosaurus, when fully grown, Uteodon would have grown up to around long and would probably have weighed no more than around , although according to Hartman (2013), Uteodon could have been as small as around long.