Paranthodon

Taxobox
name = "Paranthodon"
status = Fossil


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Stegosauria
genus = "Paranthodon"
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Paranthodon africanus" (Broom)

"Paranthodon" (Meaning "Beside "Anthodon") was a dinosaur from the middle of the Cretaceous. It lived in what is now South Africa. It is classified as a stegosaur. The type species, "Paranthodon africanus", comes from a partial skull first described as "Palaeoscincus africanus" in 1912. It was reclassified as "Paranthodon africanus" in 1929 by the famed Franz von Nopsca.It owes its name to the fact that its jaw was found near the fossils of a Permian pareiasaur named "Anthodon".

References

* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/stegosauria.htm "Thescelosaurus"!] on "Paranthodon"
* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9269&Itemid=67 "DinoData"] on "Paranthodon"