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Lesothosaurus
Taxonomy
Lesothosaurus was named by Galton (1978). It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Fabrosaurus by Hunt and Lucas (1994) and Peng (1997).
It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Maryanska and Osmólska (1985); to Predentata by Buchholz (2002); to Ornithischia by Sereno (1991), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1999), Barrett (2001), Norman et al. (2004), Weishampel (2004) and Butler (2005); to Genasauria by Butler et al. (2007); to Fabrosauridae by Galton (1978), Colbert (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Galton (1983), Olsen and Galton (1984), Milner and Norman (1984), Norman (1984), Battail (1986), Benton (1990), Currie and Padian (1997), Knoll (1999), Knoll and Battail (2001), Knoll (2002), Knoll (2005) and Gand et al. (2007); to Thyreophora by Butler et al. (2008); to Neornithischia by Madzia et al. (2018) and Herne et al. (2019); and to Ornithischia by Rauhut (2003), Weishampel (2006), Pereda Suberbiola et al. (2006), Han et al. (2012) and Dieudonné et al. (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Fabrosaurus by Hunt and Lucas (1994) and Peng (1997).
It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Maryanska and Osmólska (1985); to Predentata by Buchholz (2002); to Ornithischia by Sereno (1991), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1999), Barrett (2001), Norman et al. (2004), Weishampel (2004) and Butler (2005); to Genasauria by Butler et al. (2007); to Fabrosauridae by Galton (1978), Colbert (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Galton (1983), Olsen and Galton (1984), Milner and Norman (1984), Norman (1984), Battail (1986), Benton (1990), Currie and Padian (1997), Knoll (1999), Knoll and Battail (2001), Knoll (2002), Knoll (2005) and Gand et al. (2007); to Thyreophora by Butler et al. (2008); to Neornithischia by Madzia et al. (2018) and Herne et al. (2019); and to Ornithischia by Rauhut (2003), Weishampel (2006), Pereda Suberbiola et al. (2006), Han et al. (2012) and Dieudonné et al. (2020).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1978 | Lesothosaurus Galton p. 156 |
| 1981 | Lesothosaurus Colbert p. 50 |
| 1983 | Lesothosaurus Galton p. 5 |
| 1983 | Lesothosaurus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44 |
| 1984 | Lesothosaurus Milner and Norman p. 146 |
| 1984 | Lesothosaurus Norman pp. 342-344 fig. 7 |
| 1984 | Lesothosaurus Olsen and Galton p. 91 |
| 1985 | Lesothosaurus Maryanska and Osmólska p. 142 |
| 1986 | Lesothosaurus Battail p. 50 |
| 1990 | Lesothosaurus Benton p. 19 |
| 1991 | Lesothosaurus Sereno p. 169 |
| 1997 | Lesothosaurus Currie and Padian p. 368 |
| 1997 | Lesothosaurus Sereno p. 445 |
| 1999 | Lesothosaurus Knoll p. 65 |
| 1999 | Lesothosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
| 2001 | Lesothosaurus Barrett p. 36 |
| 2001 | Lesothosaurus Knoll and Battail p. 416 |
| 2002 | Lesothosaurus Buchholz p. 20 |
| 2002 | Lesothosaurus Knoll p. 596 |
| 2003 | Lesothosaurus Rauhut p. 16 |
| 2004 | Lesothosaurus Norman et al. p. 326 |
| 2004 | Lesothosaurus Weishampel p. 323 |
| 2005 | Lesothosaurus Butler p. 180 |
| 2005 | Lesothosaurus Knoll p. 85 |
| 2006 | Lesothosaurus Pereda Suberbiola et al. p. 227 |
| 2006 | Lesothosaurus Weishampel p. 134 |
| 2007 | Lesothosaurus Butler et al. p. 2044 |
| 2007 | Lesothosaurus Gand et al. p. 74 |
| 2008 | Lesothosaurus Butler et al. pp. 19-20 figs. 2-4 |
| 2012 | Lesothosaurus Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14 |
| 2018 | Lesothosaurus Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4 |
| 2019 | Lesothosaurus Herne et al. p. 573 |
| 2020 | Lesothosaurus Dieudonné et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Lesothosaurus Galton 1978
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†Lesothosaurus diagnosticus Galton 1978
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Invalid names: Stormbergia dangershoeki Butler 2005 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995 | |||||
Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.30000 to 190.80000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hettangian - Sinemurian | Lesotho (Quthing) | Fabrosaurus australis (28613) Heterodontosaurus sp. (55340) L. diagnosticus (55343) L. sp. (55342) | |
| Hettangian - Sinemurian | South Africa (Free State) | L. diagnosticus (48391) | |
| Hettangian - Sinemurian | Lesotho (Mafeteng) | Fabrosaurus australis (28570) L. sp. (55339) | |
| Hettangian - Sinemurian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Fabrosauridae indet. (45796) |