Echinodon
Sign in to saveEchinodon is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur that lived during the earliest Cretaceous of southern England and possibly western France in the Berriasian epoch. The first specimens were jaw bones named Echinodon becklesii by Sir Richard Owen in 1861, and since their original description only additional teeth have been discovered. The specific name honours collector Samuel Beckles who discovered the material of Echinodon and many other taxa from across England, while the genus name translates as "prickly tooth" in reference to the dental anatomy of the taxon.
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- Parent taxon
- Heterodontosauridae
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- taxon name
- Echinodon
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- genus
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- Echinodon
- time period
- Early Cretaceous
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Echinodon becklesii (gr. "diente puntiagudo de ") es la única especie conocida del género extinto Echinodon de dinosaurio neornitisquio heterodontosáurido, que vivió a principios del período Cretácico, hace aproximadamente 145 y 140 millones de años, en el Berriasiense, en lo que hoy es Europa. También es conocido como Saurechinodon.
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