Exploring the diversity and disparity of rhabdodontomorph ornithopods from the Late Cretaceous European archipelago

Citation

Czepiński, Ł.; Madzia, D. (2025). Exploring the diversity and disparity of rhabdodontomorph ornithopods from the Late Cretaceous European archipelago. Scientific Reports 15(1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-98083-z

Names first published here

• Obelignathus genus
• Obelignathus septimanicus species

Cited by genera

• Ampelognathus

  Recovered Ampelognathus in a basal polytomy within Rhabdodontomorpha under implied weighting.

• Callovosaurus

  Rhabdodontomorph-focused ornithopod analysis that does not sample Callovosaurus.

• Convolosaurus

  Recovered Convolosaurus within Rhabdodontomorpha as a tenontosaurid.

• Emiliasaura

  Recovered Emiliasaura as an early-diverging styracosternan and considered a rhabdodontomorph identity unlikely.

• Fostoria

  Recovered Fostoria outside Rhabdodontomorpha, within the elasmarian lineage.

• Iani

  Recovered Iani in Tenontosauridae.

• Muttaburrasaurus

  Recovered Muttaburrasaurus outside Rhabdodontomorpha, consistent with Fonseca and colleagues (2024).

• Obelignathus
• Rhabdodon

  Places the lectotype in the Lower Rognacian lacustrine marls at the Tunnel de la Nerthe, and gives the department as Bouches-du-Rhône.

• Tenontosaurus

  Recovered Tenontosaurus within Rhabdodontomorpha under implied weights; equal weights did not recover the clade.

• Transylvanosaurus

  Recovered Transylvanosaurus as an early-diverging rhabdodontomorph outside Rhabdodontidae.