Reptilia - Ornithischia - Heterodontosauridae

Full reference: J. A. Hopson. 1975. On the generic separation of the ornithischian dinosaurs Lycorhinus and Heterodontosaurus from the Stormberg Series (Upper Triassic) of South Africa. South African Journal of Science 71:302-305

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

See also Anderson and Cruickshank 1978, Báez and Marsicano 2001, Battail 1986, Benton 1990, Butler et al. 2008, Butler et al. 2007, Butler et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Colbert 1981, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Han et al. 2012, Knoll 2005, Langer et al. 2010, Madzia et al. 2018, Norman 1984, Norman 1989, Norman et al. 2011, Norman et al. 2004, Olsen and Galton 1984, Olshevsky and Ford 1994, Santa Luca et al. 1976, Sereno 1986, Sereno 1997, Sereno 2012, Smith 1997, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983 and Weishampel and Witmer 1990

Sister taxa: Heterodontosaurus, Lycorhinus, Manidens, Pegomastax

Subtaxa: Abrictosaurus consors

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Noosi (UCL) (Jurassic of Lesotho)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.