Genus
Valid Extinct

Sauraechmodon

Falconer, 1861

Echinodon is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur that lived during the earliest Cretaceous of southern England and possibly western France in the Berriasian epoch. The first specimens were jaw bones named Echinodon becklesii by Sir Richard Owen in 1861, and since their original description only additional teeth have been discovered. The specific name honours collector Samuel Beckles who discovered the material of Echinodon and many other taxa from across England, while the genus name translates as "prickly tooth" in reference to the dental anatomy of the taxon.

Temporal range
PBDB occurrences
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Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Sauraechmodon
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Dentary of Echinodon becklesii from the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Formation of England. Left dentary (NHMUK 48215b) in lateral (A), medial (B), and dorsal (C) views. © Paul C. Sereno · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Parapredentata Unranked clade
Saphornithischia Unranked clade
Prionodontia Unranked clade
Genasauria Unranked clade
Thyreophora Unranked clade
Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
Eurypoda Unranked clade
Stegosauria Unranked clade
Stegosauridae Family
Sauraechmodon Genus
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Bibliography
Original description
H. Falconer. 1861. Note on the synonymy of the fossil genus Echinodon of Professor Owen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 3 8:341 DOI ↗