Phyllodon
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the genus of dinosaur. For the genus of moss, see Phyllodon (plant).
Phyllodon (meaning "leaf tooth") was a genus of small ornithischian dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian-aged Upper Jurassic Camadas de Guimarota Formation of Leiria, Portugal and possibly also the Bathonian-aged Chipping Norton Limestone of England.[1] It may have been closely related to contemporaneous dinosaurs in North America.
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Phyllodon | |
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Holotype tooth | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Genus: | †Phyllodon Thulborn, 1973 |
Species: | †P. henkeli |
Binomial name | |
†Phyllodon henkeli Thulborn, 1973 | |
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This genus is known from teeth and possibly partial lower jaws. The name is also in use for a genus of modern moss, but this is not considered to be a problem because the two organisms are in two different kingdoms.