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Paranthodon
Taxonomy
Paranthodon was named by Nopcsa (1929). Its type is Palaeoscincus africanus.
It was assigned to Pareiasauridae by Kuhn (1966); to Nodosauridae by Romer (1966); to Ankylosauria by Coombs (1978), Molnar (1980); to Kentrosauridae by Olshevsky and Ford (1993); to Stegosaurinae by Romer (1956), Maidment et al. (2008); to Stegosauria by Mateus et al. (2009); to Stegosauridae by Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Charig (1967), Galton (1981), Galton and Coombs (1981), Bonaparte (1986), Sereno (1986), Carroll (1988), Galton (1990), Molnar (1992), Jacobs et al. (1996), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Ulansky (2014); and to Stegosauria by Salisbury et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Pareiasauridae by Kuhn (1966); to Nodosauridae by Romer (1966); to Ankylosauria by Coombs (1978), Molnar (1980); to Kentrosauridae by Olshevsky and Ford (1993); to Stegosaurinae by Romer (1956), Maidment et al. (2008); to Stegosauria by Mateus et al. (2009); to Stegosauridae by Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Charig (1967), Galton (1981), Galton and Coombs (1981), Bonaparte (1986), Sereno (1986), Carroll (1988), Galton (1990), Molnar (1992), Jacobs et al. (1996), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Ulansky (2014); and to Stegosauria by Salisbury et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Paranthodon Nopcsa |
| 1956 | Paranthodon Romer p. 634 |
| 1964 | Paranthodon Kuhn p. 36 |
| 1964 | Paranthodon Tatarinov p. 573 |
| 1966 | Paranthodon Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1966 | Paracanthodon Romer p. 370 |
| 1967 | Paranthodon Charig p. 715 |
| 1978 | Paranthodon Coombs p. 144 |
| 1980 | Paranthodon Molnar p. 139 |
| 1981 | Paranthodon Galton p. 43 |
| 1981 | Paranthodon Galton and Coombs, Jr. p. 304 |
| 1986 | Paranthodon Bonaparte p. 84 |
| 1986 | Paranthodon Sereno |
| 1988 | Paranthodon Carroll |
| 1990 | Paranthodon Galton |
| 1992 | Paranthodon Molnar p. 266 |
| 1993 | Paranthodon Olshevsky and Ford |
| 1996 | Paranthodon Jacobs et al. p. 605 |
| 2004 | Paranthodon Galton and Upchurch p. 345 |
| 2008 | Paranthodon Maidment et al. p. 390 fig. 11 |
| 2009 | Paranthodon Mateus et al. |
| 2014 | Paranthodon Ulansky p. 5 |
| 2016 | Paranthodon Salisbury et al. p. 127 |
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G. †Paranthodon Nopcsa 1929
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| S. C. R. Maidment et al. 2008 | As for type and only known species. |