Genre
Valide Éteint

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.

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Plage temporelle
Occurrences PBDB
0
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
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 Clade non classé
Ornithischia Clade non classé
Parapredentata Clade non classé
Saphornithischia Clade non classé
Prionodontia Clade non classé
Genasauria Clade non classé
Thyreophora Clade non classé
Thyreophoroidea Superfamille
Eurypoda Clade non classé
Stegosauria Clade non classé
Stegosauridae Famille
Sauraechmodon Genre
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Bibliographie
Description originale
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 ↗