Alocodon
| Alocodon | |
|---|---|
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| Tooth | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Genus: | †Alocodon Thulborn, 1973 |
| Species: | † A. kuehnei |
| Binomial name | |
| Alocodon kuehnei | |
Alocodon (a-LOK-o-don; Greek alox and odon meaning 'furrow' and 'tooth') is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Portugal. It was described in 1973 by Richard Anthony Thulborn. It had small ornithopod-like teeth with vertical grooves. This animal is only known from these teeth, and is usually considered a nomen dubium.
The type species is Alocodon kuehnei, the specific epithet honoring the German paleontologist Georg Kühne. The holotype is LPFU P X 2.
Though at first it was considered by Thulborn a member of the Fabrosauridae[1] and by Peter Galton a hypsilophodontid, Paul Sereno (1991) classified A. kuehnei as Ornithischia incertae sedis. Further studies indicate this species as a probable thyreophoran.
Notes
- ↑ 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", Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal), Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22: 89-134
External links
- Alocodon at DinoData