Reptilia - Ornithischia - Heterodontosauridae
Alternative combination: Lycorhinus tucki
Full reference: A. W. Crompton and A. J. Charig. 1962. A new ornithischian from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Nature 196:1074-1077
Belongs to Heterodontosaurus according to M. C. Herne et al. 2018
See also Azzaroli 1972, Báez and Marsicano 2001, Becerra et al. 2016, Becerra and Ramírez 2018, Bittencourt and Kellner 2009, Breeden et al. 2021, Buchholz 2002, Butler et al. 2008, Butler et al. 2007, Butler and Sullivan 2009, Butler et al. 2008, Butler and Zhao 2009, Casanovas et al. 1999, Charig and Crompton 1974, Chinsamy 1997, Chure et al. 1994, Crompton and Charig 1962, Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2019, Delsate and Ezcurra 2014, Desojo et al. 2020, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Dieudonné et al. 2016, Ellenberger 1970, Ellenberger 1974, Herne et al. 2019, Hopson 1975, Hübner 2016, Irmis and Knoll 2008, Kammerer et al. 2012, Langer and Benton 2006, Maryanska and Osmólska 1985, Moro et al. 2020, Norman et al. 2011, Norman et al. 2004, Olsen and Galton 1984, Olshevsky and Ford 1994, Porro et al. 2011, Santa Luca 1980, Santa Luca et al. 1976, Sereno 2012, Simmons 1965, Smith 1997, Swinton 1970, Thuborn 1978, Thulborn 1970, Thulborn 1974, Thulborn 1975, Upchurch et al. 2007, Weishampel and Heinrich 1992, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983 and Weishampel and Witmer 1990
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SAFM K337, a skull. Its type locality is Tyindini (zone B/1), which is in a Sinemurian terrestrial horizon in the Clarens Formation of South Africa.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of South Africa (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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