Lycorhinus
Sign in to saveLycorhinus is a genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian to Sinemurian ages) strata of the Elliot Formation located in the Cape Province, South Africa.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Heterodontosauridae
- Image
- Lycorhinus.jpg
- Length
- 1.2
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- Commons category
- Lycorhinus
- time period
- Late Triassic
- location of discovery
- South Africa
- main food source
- herbivore
- taxon name
- Lycorhinus
- taxon rank
- genus
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- Description
- History of discovery
- ''Lanasaurus''
- Classification
- References
Lycorhinus is a genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian to Sinemurian ages) strata of the Elliot Formation located in the Cape Province, South Africa.
==Description== thumb|left|Skull diagram Lycorhinus, including the remains described by Gow in 1975 as Lanasaurus, is a small ( in length) herbivorous dinosaur despite the long canines it sported in its jaws.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lycorhinus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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