Species
Valid Extinct

Paranthodon africanus

(Broom 1912)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Parapredentata Unranked clade
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Saphornithischia Unranked clade
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Prionodontia Unranked clade
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Genasauria Unranked clade
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Thyreophora Unranked clade
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
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Eurypoda Unranked clade
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Stegosauria Unranked clade
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Stegosauridae Family
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Paranthodon Genus
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Paranthodon africanus Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇿🇦 South Africa
1
Geological formations
Kirkwood
1
Temporal distribution
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Synonyms (2)
Paranthodon owenii subjective synonym of Paranthodon africanus
Paranthodon owenii subjective synonym of Paranthodon africanus
Bibliography
Original description
R. Broom. 1912. Observations on some specimens of South African fossil reptiles preserved in thge British Museum. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 2:19-25
Bibliography (1)
P. M. Galton. 1981. Craterosaurus pottonensis Seeley, a stegosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of England, and a review of Cretaceous stegosaurs. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 161(1):28-46 DOI ↗