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Paranthodon

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Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Stegosauria
Genus: Paranthodon
Species
  • Paranthodon africanus

Paranthodon (Meaning "Beside Anthodon") was a dinosaur from the middle of the Cretaceous. It lived in what is now South Africa. It is classified as a stegosaur. The type species, Paranthodon africanus, comes from a partial skull first described as Palaeoscincus africanus in 1912. It was reclassified as Paranthodon africanus in 1929.

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