Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger 1881 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Alternative combinations: Iguanodon bernissariensis, Jguanodon bernissartensis

Synonyms: Dollodon seelyi Hulke 1882, Iguanodon seeleyi Hulke 1882, Iguanodon seelyi Hulke 1882

Full reference: G. A. Boulenger. 1881. Sur l'arc pelvien chez les dinosauriens de Bernissart [On the pelvic arch in the dinosaurs of Bernissart]. Bulletins de L'Académie royale de Belgique, 3eme série 1(5):1-11

Belongs to Iguanodon according to J. A. Bonsor et al. 2023

See also Anonymous 1896, Anonymous 1897, Antunes 1976, Barrett and Maidment 2011, Bartholomai and Molnar 1981, Becerra et al. 2016, Bell et al. 2019, Blows 1983, Blows 1998, Brill and Carpenter 2007, Bristow et al. 1889, Buchholz 2002, Buffetaut 1997, Buffetaut et al. 1980, Buscalioni and Sanz 1984, Buscalioni and Sanz 1987, Carpenter and Ishida 2010, Casanovas et al. 1987, Cheevely and Chapman 1992, Cobos et al. 2016, Contreras et al. 2007, Cope 1886, Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2019, Cuenca-Bescós et al. 1999, Currie and Padian 1997, Dalla Vecchia 2020, Dames 1884, De Pauw 1902, Diedrich 2004, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Dollo 1882, Dollo 1882, Dollo 1883, Dollo 1883, Dollo 1884, Dollo 1885, Dollo 1887, Drevermann 1911, du Pauw 1902, Dupont 1892, Dupont 1897, Dzhailov and Novikov 1993, Farlow 1987, Fondevilla et al. 2018, Forster 1997, Frances and Sanz 1989, Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2016, Gadow 1901, Galton 2009, Gasca 2015, Gasca et al. 2013, Gasca et al. 2016, Gasulla et al. 2013, Gasulla et al. 2014, Gasulla et al. 2016, Gasulla et al. 2011, Gasulla et al. 2011, Gates et al. 2011, Gates et al. 2018, Gaudry 1890, Gaudry 1896, Gilmore 1925, Godefroit et al. 2012, Godefroit et al. 1998, Godefroit et al. 2017, Godefroit and Knoll 2003, Gross 1934, Günther 1886, Han et al. 2012, Harmer 1896, Herne et al. 2019, Herne et al. 2018, Hooley 1912, Hooley 1917, Hooley 1925, Horner 1988, Hübner and Rauhut 2007, Hulke 1882, Hulke 1884, Hutt et al. 1989, Ibiricu et al. 2019, Jackson 1939, Jaekel 1911, Janensch 1933, Ji and Zhang 2022, Joubert 1908, Jurcsak and Popa 1979, Kehrer 1895, Kim et al. 2009, Kim et al. 2016, Koken 1887, Kuhn 1964, Langston 1974, Lapparent 1960, Lapparent 1962, Lapparent 1967, Lapparent and Stchepinsky 1968, Lehmann 1978, Llandres Serrano et al. 2013, Lockley 1994, Luque et al. 2008, Lydekker 1888, Lydekker 1888, Lydekker 1889, Lydekker 1890, Lydekker 1893, Madzia et al. 2018, Mansel-Pleydell 1888, Mansel-Pleydell 1896, Mansel-Pleydell 1902, Marsh 1895, Marsh 1896, Martin and Buffetaut 1992, McDonald 2012, McDonald 2012, McDonald et al. 2010, McDonald et al. 2012, McDonald et al. 2012, McDonald et al. 2010, McDonald et al. 2014, McDonald et al. 2010, Meunier 1883, Molnar 1996, Moseley 1883, Naish and Martill 2001, Naish and Martill 2008, Newton 1889, Nopcsa 1900, Nopcsa 1901, Nopcsa 1902, Nopcsa 1915, Norman 1980, Norman 1987, Norman 1997, Norman 1998, Norman 2004, Norman 2010, Norman 2013, Norman 2014, Norman and Sues 2000, Norman and Weishampel 1990, Osborn 1930, Paul 2007, Paul 2008, Pereda Suberbiola et al. 1999, Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2006, Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2010, Pereda Suberbiola and Ruiz-Omeñaca 2013, Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2011, Perrier 1928, Posmosanu 2003, Prieto-Márquez 2010, Prieto-Márquez 2010, Prieto-Márquez 2011, Prieto-Márquez 2011, Prieto-Marquez et al. 2012, Prieto-Márquez et al. 2006, Prieto-Márquez and Norell 2010, Prieto-Márquez and Wagner 2010, Quinet 1969, Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012, Rotatori et al. 2022, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 1998, Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo 2003, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2008, Sakagami and Kawabe 2020, Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007, Santafé et al. 1981, Santafé et al. 1982, Santos et al. 2013, Santos-Cubedo et al. 2021, Sanz 1984, Sanz 1986, Sanz 2000, Sanz et al. 1984, Sanz et al. 2014, Sarjeant et al. 1998, Savalle and Lennier 1899, Seeley 1882, Seeley 1883, Seeley 1887, Seitz 1907, Struckmann 1894, Swinton 1933, Swinton 1934, Swinton 1936, Swinton 1970, Taquet 1970, Taquet 1975, Tatarinov 1964, Thulborn 1990, Torcida Fernández-Baldor 2006, Tornier 1913, Van Den Broeck 1900, Verdú et al. 2014, Verdú et al. 2015, Verdú et al. 2016, Verdú et al. 2021, von Zittel 1911, Wang et al. 2011, Wang and Xu 2001, Weishampel and Bjork 1989, Weishampel et al. 1991, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983, Winkler 1893, Woodward 1885, Woodward 1895, Woodward 1898, Woodward and Sherborn 1890, Wright 1999, Xing et al. 2012, You et al. 2005, Young 1944, Yuryev 1954, Zhang et al. 2013, Zheng et al. 2013 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Iguanodon anglicus, Iguanodon galvensis, Iguanodon major, Struthopus schaumburgensis

Type specimens:

  • Iguanodon bernissartensis: IRSNB 1534, a skeleton. Its type locality is Sainte-Barbe coal mine, Bernissart, which is in a Barremian/Aptian lacustrine - small claystone/bituminous coal in the Sainte-Barbe Clays Formation of Belgium.
  • Iguanodon seelyi: BMNH R2506–2509, a set of limb elements. Its type locality is small chine south of Brook Chine, which is in a Hauterivian/Aptian terrestrial claystone/claystone in the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), France (2), Germany (4), Spain (8), the United Kingdom (6)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France (1)

Total: 22 collections including 23 occurrences

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