Basutodon
| Basutodon Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Suchia |
| Genus: | †Basutodon von Huene, 1932 |
| Species: | †B. ferox
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| Binomial name | |
| †Basutodon ferox von Huene, 1932
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Basutodon is a genus of suchian archosaur from the Late Triassic (late Norian-early Rhaetian) Lower Elliot Formation of Lesotho.[1] The type species is B. ferox.
Discovery and naming
[edit | edit source]The holotype is a single tooth that was discovered alongside the remains of Euskelosaurus browni in the upper Elliot Formation, Lesotho. The species Basutodon ferox was named and described by von Huene (1932).[1]
"Likhoelesaurus ingens", an undescribed archosauriform from the Lower Elliot Formation of South Africa,[2] may have been the same animal as Basutodon ferox.[3][4]
Description
[edit | edit source]Basutodon was once classified as a prosauropod, as with Teratosaurus or as a synonym of Euskelosaurus. It was probably neither of these things, though, and is much more likely to be a dubious non-dinosaur.[5]
Basutodon is currently listed as a basal member of Suchia,[3] although Tolchard et al. (2019) suggested that Basutodon may belong to Rauisuchia.[6]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b von Huene, F. (1932). Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihte Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie 1(4). 361 p. [German]
- ^ Ellenberger and Ginsberg, (1966). Le gisement de Dinosauriens triasiques de Maphutseng (Basutoland) et l'origine des Sauropodes [The Triassic dinosaur locality of Maphutseng (Basutoland) and the origin of sauropods]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D. 262, 444–447.
- ^ a b Kitching, J.W. & Raath, M.A. (1984). Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the Northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a Suggested Biozonation Based on Tetrapods. 25: 111-125.
- ^ Knoll, F (2004). Review of the tetrapod fauna of the "Lower Stormberg Group" of the main Karoo Basin (southern Africa): Implication for the age of the Lower Elliot Formation. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 175(1), 73–83.
- ^ Glut, D.F. (1997). "Excluded Genera", Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company:Jefferson, North Carolina, 1005-1010. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
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