Pronunciation: kwa-yuh-row-don
Meaning: Choyr tooth
Author/s: Gates et al. (2018)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Dornogovi, Mongolia
Discovery Chart Position: #989
Choyrodon barsboldi
(Barsbold's Choyr tooth)Etymology
Choyrodon is derived from "Choyr" (a city near the Khuren Dukh locality where the fossils were discovered) and the Latin "don" (tooth) which is a common ending for ornithopod dinosaur taxa.
The species epithet, barsboldi, honors Dr. Rinchen Barsbold, a leading dinosaur paleontologist of Mongolia and leader of the expedition that discovered the first remains of this species.
ZooBank registry: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:92591A61-54AD-4E74-B47F-2F1135305E9A.
Discovery
The remains of Choyrodon were discovered in the at the Khuren Dukh locality in the Lower Member of the Khuren Dukh Formation, Dornogovi, Mongolia, by Rinchen Barsbold.The holotype (MPC-D 100/801) is a partial skull, metacarpals and cervical ribs, belonging to a sub adult individual. Referred material includes MPC-D 100/800 (a partial skull, left sternal rib and a neural spine) and MPC-D 100/803 (a partial skull, shoulder girdle, left lower arm and hand bones, vertebrae, ribs, parts of the left hip, a right thigh and left shin).
