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Despite some lingering concerns about the status of Iguanodon seelyi, the iconic taxon I. bernissartensis has remained largely unaffected by recent taxonomic revisions. However, an entirely unnecessary confusion concerns a new taxonomic combination, Dollodon seelyi (Fig. 2.2). Carpenter and Ishida (2010:148) consider the ilia of RBINS R57 that were renamed Dollodon bampingi by Paul (2008) to be “practically indistinguishable from that of Iguanodon seelyi Hulke, 1882 and therefore the species seelyi has priority over bampingi.” However, the two ilia are distinguishable. Dollodon is an invalid taxon (see above, D. bampingi) and referring another specimen to this genus by creating a new species without reference to diagnostic characters is logically and taxonomically unacceptable (McDonald, 2012a).