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''Mochlodon'' is a genus of iguanodont dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous. ==History and Systematics== In 1859 coal mine administrator Pawlowitsch notified the University of Vienna that some fossils had been found in the ''Gute Hoffnung'' mine at Muthmannsdorf in Austria. A team headed by geologists Eduard Suess and Ferdinand Stoliczka subsequently uncovered numerous bones of several species, among them those of a euornithopod dinosaur. Stored at the university museum, the finds remained undescribed until they were studied by Emanuel Bunzel from 1870 onwards. Bunzel in 1871 named the euornithopod a new species of ''Iguanodon'': ''Iguanodon suessii''.〔E. Bunzel, 1871, "Die Reptilfauna der Gosauformation in der Neuen Welt bei Wiener-Neustadt", ''Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt'' 5: 1-18〕 The specific name honours Suess and is today more often spelled ''suessi''. In 1881 Harry Govier Seeley named a separate genus: ''Mochlodon''. The generic name is derived from Greek ''mokhlos'', "bar", and ''odon'', "tooth", a reference to the bar-like median ridge on the teeth. The type species is ''Mochlodon suessi''. ''Mochlodon'' and ''Struthiosaurus'', the latter found at the same site, are the only dinosaur genera named from Austrian finds. The type specimen PIUW 2349 was found in the Coal-Bearing Complex Formation of the Gosau Group dating from the Lower Campanian, about eighty million years old. It consists of a dentary, two vertebrae (presently lost), a parietal, a scapula, an ulna, a manual ungual, a femur and a tibia. Bunzel did not assign a holotype. In 2005 the dentary was chosen as the lectotype. At the end of the nineteenth century Baron Franz Nopcsa noted the similarity of fossils found in Romania to both the French ''Rhabdodon'' and the Austrian ''Mochlodon''. In 1899 he named some of these ''Mochlodon inkeyi'', the specific name honouring Béla Inkey, but the same year changed the name into ''Rhabdodon inkeyi''. In 1900 Nopcsa named some Romanian remains ''Mochlodon robustum''〔F. Nopcsa, 1900, "Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen (Schädel von ''Limnosaurus transsylvanicus'' nov. gen. et spec.)", ''Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe'' 68: 555-591〕 (emended to ''M. robustus'' in 1990 by George Olshevsky). In 1915 however, he concluded that all this material could be referred to ''Rhabdodon'', the Austrian remains to ''Rhabdodon priscus''. In later years, ''Mochlodon'' was often considered a ''nomen dubium''. In 2003, when ''M. robustus'' was renamed ''Zalmoxes'', ''Mochlodon'' was tentatively reinstated as a separate genus for the species ''Mochlodon suessi''. In 2005 a study concluded that no unique derived features, autapomorphies, could be established for ''Mochlodon'' in relation to ''Zalmoxes'', assigning the Austrian remains provisionally to a ''Zalmoxes'' sp.; a definite identification would give ''Mochlodon'' nomenclatural priority. A second species, ''M. vorosi'', was described in 2012. ''Mochlodon'' was a small bipedal herbivore. ''Mochlodon'' is since 2003 considered a member of the Rhabdodontidae. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mochlodon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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