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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).