Phyllodon

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iPhyllodon Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Ornithischia Suborder: Ornithopoda? Genus: Phyllodon
Binomial name
Phyllodon henkeli Thulborn, 1979

Phyllodon is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It is a tooth taxa, known only from dentary fossils. It is believed to be an ornithopod, but given the fragmentary remains, little else is known. The only fossils found, from Portugal, are those of the type species, Phyllodon henkeli, formally described by Thulborn in 1979.

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