Sarcolestes
| Sarcolestes | |
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| Illustrations of the mandible and tooth | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
| Genus: | †Sarcolestes Lydekker, 1893 |
| Type species | |
| †Sarcolestes leedsi Lydekker, 1893
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Sarcolestes (meaning "flesh robber") is an
extinct genus of ankylosaurian ornithischian dinosaur from the Oxford Clay of England. The current type and only species is S. leedsi, and the holotype is a single partial left mandible. The genus and species were named in 1893 by Richard Lydekker
, who thought they belonged to a theropod.
Discovery
Sarcolestes was first named in
predentary, even though the entire mandibular symphysis is preserved and complete.[1]
Classification
Originally, Lydekker found that Sarcolestes represented a theropod. He cited lack of a predentary as excluding the taxon from ornithopods, and tooth morphology as excluding it from sauropods. Within theropods, it was found to be sufficiently different from one main groups of theropods including El Mers III Formation of Morocco.[5]
See also
References
- ^ S2CID 129104548.
- ^ Nopsca, F. von (1901). "Synopsis und Abstammung der Dinosaurier". Földtani Közlöny. 31: 27.
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- S2CID 237616095.