Trimucrodon

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Trimucrodon
Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: unknown
Genus: Trimucrodon
Thulborn, 1975
Species
  • T. cuneatus Thulborn, 1975 (type)

Trimucrodon (meaning "three-grooved tooth") is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian stage, around 150 to 155 million years ago) of what is now Portugal. It is classified as a basal ornithischian, but is a nomen dubium: it is only known from its teeth.

The type species, Trimucrodon cuneatus, was described by Richard A. Thulborn in 1973; the paper was not published until 1975.

[edit] References

  • Thulborn, R.A. (1975). "Teeth of ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal, with description of a hypsilophodontid (Phyllodon henkeli gen. et sp. nov.) from the Guimarota lignite." Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22:89-134

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