Basutodon Temporal range:
Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
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 was a genus of suchian archosaur from the late Carnian- early Norian-age Upper Triassic Lower Elliot Formation of Lesotho. [1] The type species is B. ferox.
The holotype is a single tooth that was discovered alongside the remains of Euskelosaurus browni in the Lower 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]
Basutodon was once classified as a prosauropod, as with Teratosaurus. Because of this, it is sometimes listed in older dinosaur books as an early theropod, [5] 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. [6]
Basutodon is currently listed as a basal member of Suchia, [3] although Tolchard et al. (2019) suggested that Basutodon may belong to Rauisuchia. [7]
Basutodon Temporal range:
Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Suchia |
Genus: | †
Basutodon von Huene, 1932 |
Species: | †B. ferox
|
Binomial name | |
†Basutodon ferox von Huene, 1932
|
Basutodon was a genus of suchian archosaur from the late Carnian- early Norian-age Upper Triassic Lower Elliot Formation of Lesotho. [1] The type species is B. ferox.
The holotype is a single tooth that was discovered alongside the remains of Euskelosaurus browni in the Lower 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]
Basutodon was once classified as a prosauropod, as with Teratosaurus. Because of this, it is sometimes listed in older dinosaur books as an early theropod, [5] 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. [6]
Basutodon is currently listed as a basal member of Suchia, [3] although Tolchard et al. (2019) suggested that Basutodon may belong to Rauisuchia. [7]