Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2012 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Alternative combination: Gideonmantellia turolensis

Full reference: J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo, G. CUenca-Bescós, P. Cruzado-Caballero, J. M. Gasca and M. Moreno-Azanza. 2012. A new basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Barremian of Galve, Spain. Comptes Rendus Palevol 11:435-444

Belongs to Gideonmantellia according to J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2012

See also Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2019, Dieudonné et al. 2014, Dieudonné et al. 2016, Hübner 2016, Madzia et al. 2018, Moreno-Azanza et al. 2014 and Verdú et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPG-PBCH, a partial skeleton (a partially articulated skeleton housed in the Museo Paleontológico de Galve (MPG), which includes: nine dorsal, three sacral and twenty-one caudal vertebrae, f). Its type locality is Poyales Barranco Hondo, PBCH (Galve syncline), which is in a Barremian deltaic mudstone/sandstone in the Camarillas Formation of Spain.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Poyales Barranco Hondo, PBCH (Galve syncline)

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