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Lycorhinus angustidens ✝

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Description

Lycorhinus is a genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur hailing from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian to Sinemurian ages) strata of the Elliot Formation located in the Cape Province, South Africa.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycorhinus_angustidens, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4965665	https://www.gbif.org/species/4965665
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	52899	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=52899

Rank

species

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Heterodontosauridae : Lycorhinus : Lycorhinus angustidens

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Heterodontosauridae : Lycorhinus : Lycorhinus angustidens

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Ornithischia
family	Heterodontosauridae	Romer 1966
genus	Lycorhinus	Haughton 1924
species	Lycorhinus angustidens	Haughton 1924

Generic Name

Lycorhinus

Scientific Name

Lycorhinus angustidens Haughton, 1924

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated without evidence	Haughton, 1924
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated with evidence	Ellenberger, 1970
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated without evidence	Thulborn, 1970
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated with evidence	Olsen and Galton, 1984
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated without evidence	Chinsamy, 1997
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated with evidence	Norman et al., 2004
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated without evidence	Irmis and Knoll, 2008
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated with evidence	Sereno, 2012
Lycorhinus angustidens	species	belongs to Lycorhinus	stated without evidence	Han et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Ornithischia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Diet

herbivore (based on Ornithischia)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. H. Haughton. 1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series. Annals of the South African Museum 12:323-497

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycorhinus_angustidens

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Lanasaurus scalpridens Gow, 1975	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Heterodontosauridae : Lycorhinus : *Lanasaurus scalpridens*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1924	Lycorhinus angustidens Haughton
1954	Lycorhinus angustidens Haughton and Brink p. 170
1962	Lycorhinus angustidens Crompton and Charig pp. 1076-1077
1963	Lycorhinus angustidens Kermack p. 2
1970	Lycorhinus angustidens Ellenberger p. 348
1970	Lycorhinus angustidens Thulborn p. 236
1974	Lycorhinus angustidens Thulborn p. 153
1975	Lanasaurus scalpridens Gow
1975	Lycorhinus angustidens Hopson pp. 303-304
1975	Lycorhinus angustidens Thulborn p. 129
1978	Lycorhinus angustidens Thuborn p. 187
1983	Lanasaurus scalpridens Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1983	Lycorhinus angustidens Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984	Lanasaurus scalpridens Olsen and Galton p. 91

Year	Name and Author
1984	Lycorhinus angustidens Olsen and Galton p. 91
1990	Lanasaurus scalpridens Weishampel and Witmer p. 487
1990	Lycorhinus angustidens Weishampel and Witmer p. 487
1992	Lanasaurus scalpridens Weishampel and Heinrich p. 173
1997	Lycorhinus angustidens Chinsamy p. 677
1997	Lycorhinus angustidens Smith p. 317
2004	Lycorhinus angustidens Norman et al. p. 394
2008	Lycorhinus angustidens Butler et al. p. 709
2008	Lycorhinus angustidens Butler et al. p. 10
2008	Lycorhinus angustidens Irmis and Knoll p. 123
2012	Lycorhinus angustidens Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14
2012	Lycorhinus angustidens Sereno p. 133 figs. 3, 73-80
2018	Lycorhinus angustidens Bell et al. p. 29

References

Haughton S. H. (1924) The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series, Annals of the South African Museum 12, 323-497

Haughton S. H., Brink A. S. (1954) A bibliographical list of Reptilia from the Karroo Beds of South Africa, Palaeontologia Africana 2, 1-187

Crompton A. W., Charig A. J. (1962) A new ornithischian from the Upper Triassic of South Africa, Nature 196, 1074-1077

Kermack K. A. (1963) Vertebrate fossils from Basutoland, Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1603, 1-2

Ellenberger P. (1970) Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic)., In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, 343-370

Thulborn R. A. (1974) A new heterodontosaurid dinosaur (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Upper Triassic red beds of Lesotho, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 55, 151-175

Gow C. E. (1975) A new heterodontosaurid from the Redbeds of South Africa showing clear evidence of tooth replacement, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 57, 335-339

Hopson J. A. (1975) On the generic separation of the ornithischian dinosaurs Lycorhinus and Heterodontosaurus from the Stormberg Series (Upper Triassic) of South Africa, South African Journal of Science 71, 302-305

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

Weishampel D. B., Weishampel J. B. (1983) Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography, The Mosasaur 1, 43-87

Olsen P. E., Galton P. M. (1984) A review of the reptile and amphibian assemblages from the Stormberg of southern Africa, with special emphasis on the footprints and the age of the Stormberg, Palaeontologia Africana 25, 87-110

Norman D. B., Sues H.-D., et al (2004) Basal Ornithopoda, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 393-412

Butler R. J., Porro L. B., et al (2008) A juvenile skull of the primitive ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki from the 'Stormberg' of southern Africa, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 3, 700-711 doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[702:AJSOTP]2.0.CO;2

Butler R. J., Upchurch P., et al (2008) The phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 1, 1-40 doi:10.1017/S1477201907002271

Han F.-L., Barrett P. M., et al (2012) Postcranial anatomy of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 6, 1370-1395 doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694385

Sereno P. C. (2012) Taxonomy, morphology, masticatory function and phylogeny of heterodontosaurid dinosaurs, Zookeys 226, 1-225 doi:10.3897/zookeys.226.2840

Bell P. R., Herne M. C., et al (2018) Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia, PeerJ 6, e6008:1-40 doi:10.7717/peerj.6008

S. H. Haughton (1924) The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series: Annals of the South African Museum: 323--497 - via Catalogue of Life

P. C. Sereno (2012) Taxonomy, morphology, masticatory function and phylogeny of heterodontosaurid dinosaurs: Zookeys: 1--225 (10.3897/zookeys.226.2840) - via Catalogue of Life

C. E. Gow (1975) A new heterodontosaurid from the Redbeds of South Africa showing clear evidence of tooth replacement: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: 335--339 - via Catalogue of Life

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