Lycorhinus

Taxobox
name = Lycorhinus
status = Fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
familia = Heterodontosauridae
genus = "Lycorhinus"
genus_authority = Haughton, 1924
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Lycorhinus angustidens"

"Lycorhinus angustidens" is a heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur hailing from the Early Jurassic strata of the Eliot Formation located in the Cape Province, South Africa. The fossil remains consist in dentaries and maxillae hence the characters mentioned by the name that Haughton attributed to them in 1924, where the generic name means "wolf snout", as it was at first misidentified as a cynodont, and the specific descriptor means "constricted teeth"."Lycorhinus", including the remains described by Gow in 1975 as " Lanasaurus", is a small herbivore dinosaur despite long canines it sported in its jaws; due to this unique characteristic "L. angustidens" is very clearly allied to "Heterodontosaurus".

References

* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6766&Itemid=67 "Lycorhinus" at DinoData]
* [http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/dinol.htm "Lycorhinus" at Dinosauria.com]