Reptilia - Ornithischia - Silesauridae

Diodorus is a small-bodied (less than 1 meter body length) dinosauriform known from specimens from Morocco representing several individuals. Diodorus belongs to Silesauridae - a clade of highly dinosaur-like animals currently believed to be the closest relatives of true dinosaurs (the sister taxon to Dinosauria). Diodorus represents the first member of this group discovered in northern Africa, and supports a cosmopolitan distribution for silesaurids in the Middle-Late Triassic.

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Full reference: C. F. Kammerer, S. J. Nesbitt, and N. H. Shubin. 2012. The first basal dinosauriform (Silesauridae) from the Late Triassic of Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2):277-284

Parent taxon: Sulcimentisauria according to A. O. Fonseca et al. 2024

See also Kammerer et al. 2012, Martínez et al. 2016 and Martz and Small 2019

Sister taxa: Eucoelophysis, Kwanasaurus, Lutungutali, Sacisaurus, Silesaurus, Technosaurus

Subtaxa: Diodorus scytobrachion

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at 2.9 km east of Imziln (Triassic of Morocco)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.