Sarcolestes leedsi Lydekker 1893 (ankylosaur)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1893. On the jaw of a new carnivorous dinosaur from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 49:284-287

Belongs to Sarcolestes according to M. K. Vickaryous et al. 2004

See also Blows and Honeysett 2014, Carpenter 2001, Charig 1967, Clark 2001, Delsate et al. 2018, Ford 2000, Galton 1980, Galton 1983, Galton 1983, Galton 1994, Galton 2019, Han et al. 2014, Kirkland et al. 2013, Kuhn 1964, Leeds 1956, Maidment et al. 2020, Maidment et al. 2021, Martill 1988, Naish and Martill 2008, Nopcsa 1901, Norman et al. 2007, Osi and Makádi 2009, Smith 1997, Swinton 1970 and Ulansky 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH R2682, a mandible. Its type locality is Fletton brick pit, Peterborough, which is in a Callovian marine horizon in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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