Alocodon

Taxobox|
name = "Alocodon"|
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
genus = "Alocodon"
genus_authority = Thulborn, 1973
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Alocodon kuehnei"

"Alocodon" (a-LOK-o-don) is the name given to a genus of dinosaur discovered by Thulborn in 1973, whose Greek components, "alox" and "odon" mean respectively, 'furrow' and 'tooth'. It had small ornithopod-like teeth with vertical grooves. This animal is only known from these teeth, and is usually considered a nomen dubium.

The type species is "Alocodon kuehnei", the specific epithet honoring the German paleontologist Kühne.Though at first is was considered a hypsilophodontid, Paul Sereno (1991) regarded "A. kuehnei" as an Ornithischia "incertae sedis". Further studies indicate this species as a probable thyreophoran. This genus of dinosaur lived in the Middle Jurassic of what is now Portugal.

External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a7ea9e.htm "Alocodon" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ' Lair
* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6017&Itemid=67 "Alocodon"] at DinoData