Species
Valid Extinct

Heterodontosaurus tucki

(Crompton and Charig 1962)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Parapredentata Unranked clade
Saphornithischia Unranked clade
Prionodontia Unranked clade
Heterodontosauridae Family
Heterodontosaurinae Subfamily
Heterodontosaurus Genus
Heterodontosaurus tucki Species
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇿🇦 South Africa
4
Geological formations
Elliot
3
Temporal distribution
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
4
Bibliography
Original description
A. W. Crompton and A. J. Charig. 1962. A new ornithischian from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Nature 196:1074-1077 DOI ↗
Bibliography (4)
B. M. Weiss, J. Botha, and J. N. Choiniere. 2022. Limb bone histology of theropod dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(2):e2145901:1-9 DOI ↗
L. B. Porro, R. J. Butler, and P. M. Barrett, S. Moore-Fay, R. L. Abel. 2011. New heterodontosaurid specimens from the Lower Jurassic of southern Africa and the early ornithischian dinosaur radiation. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101:351-366 DOI ↗
J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125
A. W. Crompton and A. J. Charig. 1962. A new ornithischian from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Nature 196:1074-1077 DOI ↗