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Pteropelyx

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superorder
  
Dinosauria

Subfamily
  
Lambeosaurinae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Sauropsida

Family
  
Hadrosauridae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Ornithischia

Similar
  
Cionodon, Palaeoscincus, Pterospondylus, Niobrarasaurus, Diclonius

Pteropelyx is a dubious genus of Late Cretaceous hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Judith River Formation of Montana, named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1889. Historically, several species were assigned to it, all based on extremely fragmentary remains, but there is no evidence to support these assignments. Most of these other species' remains likely belong to better-known hadrosaurs, such as Lambeosaurus and Gryposaurus. It is probable that the type material of Pteropelyx, a skeleton lacking a skull, is from Corythosaurus (making Pteropelyx its senior synonym) (Brett-Surman, 1989), but the lack of a skull makes such a synonymy impossible to determine with certainty.

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Pteropelyx Wikipedia