Trimucrodon

Taxobox
name = "Trimucrodon"
fossil_range = Late Jurassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = unknown
familia =
genus = "Trimucrodon"
genus_authority=Thulborn, 1975
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"T. cuneatus" Thulborn, 1975 (type)

"Trimucrodon" (meaning "three-grooved tooth") is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian stage, around 150 to 155 million years ago) of what is now Portugal. It is classified as a basal ornithischian, but is a "nomen dubium": it is only known from its teeth.

The type species, "Trimucrodon cuneatus", was described by Richard A. Thulborn in 1973; the paper was not published until 1975.

References

*Thulborn, R.A. (1975). "Teeth of ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal, with description of a hypsilophodontid ("Phyllodon henkeli" gen. et sp. nov.) from the Guimarota lignite." "Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série)" 22:89-134

External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a944a2.htm "Trimucrodon" in the Dinosaur Encyclopedia] at DinoRuss' Lair