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Thecodontosaurus, the Glossary

Thecodontosaurus ("socket-tooth lizard") is a genus of herbivorous basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the late Triassic period (Rhaetian age).^[1]

72 relations: Agrosaurus, Anchisaurus, Andre Wyss, Arthur Smith Woodward, Australia, Autapomorphy, Breccia, Bristol, Bristol Blitz, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Carnian, Chalk, Cladistics, Clifton, Bristol, Curator, Dinosaur, Durdham Down, Efraasia, Friedrich von Huene, Galtonia gibbidens, Genus, Harry Seeley, Henry Riley (scientist), Herbivore, HMS Fly (1831), Holotype, Hortalotarsus, Hylaeosaurus, Iguanodon, Ilium (bone), Insular dwarfism, John Morris (geologist), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Latin, Magnesian Conglomerate, Megalosaurus, Michael Benton, Natural History Museum, London, Neurocranium, Nyasasaurus, Palaeosaurus, Pantydraco, Peter Galton, Phytosaur, Polymorphism (biology), Proceedings of the Royal Society, Protanystropheus, Rhaetian, Richard Owen, Samuel Stutchbury, ... Expand index (22 more) »
Fossil taxa described in 1836
Fossils of Serbia
Late Triassic dinosaurs of Europe
Rhaetian life
Sauropodomorphs
Taxa named by Samuel Stutchbury
Triassic England

Agrosaurus

Agrosaurus (perhaps from Greek agros meaning 'field' and sauros meaning 'lizard', "field lizard") is a potentially dubious genus of thecodontosaurid sauropodomorph probably originating from the Magnesian Conglomerate of England that was originally believed to be a Triassic prosauropod from Australia. Thecodontosaurus and Agrosaurus are fossils of England, late Triassic dinosaurs of Europe, Rhaetian life, sauropodomorphs and Triassic England.

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Anchisaurus

Anchisaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur.

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Andre Wyss

Andre Wyss is a professor of Paleontology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Arthur Smith Woodward

Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS (23 May 1864 – 2 September 1944) was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Autapomorphy

In phylogenetics, an autapomorphy is a distinctive feature, known as a derived trait, that is unique to a given taxon.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Bristol Blitz

The Bristol Blitz was the heavy bombing of Bristol, England by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is a large museum and art gallery in Bristol, England.

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Carnian

The Carnian (less commonly, Karnian) is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic Series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic Epoch).

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock.

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Cladistics

Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry.

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Clifton, Bristol

Clifton is both a suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five council wards.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Durdham Down

Durdham Down is an area of public open space in Bristol, England.

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Efraasia

Efraasia (pronounced "E-FRAHS-ee-A") is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. Thecodontosaurus and Efraasia are late Triassic dinosaurs of Europe and sauropodomorphs.

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Friedrich von Huene

Friedrich von Huene born Friedrich Richard Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene (22 March 1875 – 4 April 1969) was a German nobleman paleontologist who described a large number of dinosaurs, more than anyone else in 20th century Europe.

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Galtonia gibbidens

Galtonia is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Harry Seeley

Harry Govier Seeley (18 February 1839 – 8 January 1909) was a British paleontologist.

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Henry Riley (scientist)

Henry Riley (1797–1848) was a British surgeon, anatomist, naturalist, geologist and paleontologist.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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HMS Fly (1831)

HMS Fly was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Hortalotarsus

Hortalotarsus (etymology uncertain; probably "tarsus of a young bird"?) is a dubious genus of extinct sauropodomorph from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian-aged) Clarens Formation of Eagle's Crag, South Africa.

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Hylaeosaurus

Hylaeosaurus (Greek: hylaios/ὑλαῖος "belonging to the forest" and sauros/σαυρος "lizard") is a herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived about 136 million years ago, in the late Valanginian stage of the early Cretaceous period of England. Thecodontosaurus and Hylaeosaurus are fossils of England.

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Iguanodon

Iguanodon (meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. Thecodontosaurus and iguanodon are fossils of England.

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Ilium (bone)

The ilium (ilia) is the uppermost and largest region of the coxal bone, and appears in most vertebrates including mammals and birds, but not bony fish.

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Insular dwarfism

Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism, is the process and condition of large animals evolving or having a reduced body size when their population's range is limited to a small environment, primarily islands.

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John Morris (geologist)

John Morris (19 February 1810 – 7 January 1886) was an English geologist.

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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

The Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (Print:, online) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of palaeontology published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the British Natural History Museum.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Magnesian Conglomerate

The Magnesian Conglomerate is a geological formation in Clifton, Bristol in England (originally Avon), Gloucestershire and southern Wales, present in Tytherington, Durdham Down, Slickstones Quarry and Cromhall Quarry. Thecodontosaurus and Magnesian Conglomerate are Triassic England.

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Megalosaurus

Megalosaurus (meaning "great lizard", from Greek μέγας, megas, meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and σαῦρος, sauros, meaning 'lizard') is an extinct genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic Epoch (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of southern England. Thecodontosaurus and Megalosaurus are fossils of England.

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Michael Benton

Michael James Benton One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 8 April 1956) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Neurocranium

In human anatomy, the neurocranium, also known as the braincase, brainpan, or brain-pan, is the upper and back part of the skull, which forms a protective case around the brain.

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Nyasasaurus

Nyasasaurus (meaning "Lake Nyasa lizard") is an extinct genus of avemetatarsalian archosaur from the putatively Middle Triassic Manda Formation of Tanzania that may be the earliest known dinosaur.

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Palaeosaurus

Palaeosaurus (or Paleosaurus) is a genus of indeterminate archosaur known from two teeth found in the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation and also either the Magnesian Conglomerate or the Avon Fissure Fill of Clifton, Bristol, England (originally Avon).

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Pantydraco

Pantydraco (where "panty-" is short for Pant-y-ffynnon, signifying hollow of the spring/well in Welsh, referring to the quarry at Bonvilston in South Wales where it was found) is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of the United Kingdom (Wales). Thecodontosaurus and Pantydraco are late Triassic dinosaurs of Europe and sauropodomorphs.

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Peter Galton

Peter Malcolm Galton (born 14 March 1942 in London) is a British vertebrate paleontologist who has to date written or co-written about 190 papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.

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Phytosaur

Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek, meaning 'plant lizard') are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles.

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Polymorphism (biology)

In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society

Proceedings of the Royal Society is the main research journal of the Royal Society.

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Protanystropheus

Protanystropheus is an extinct genus of archosauromorph from the Middle Triassic (Anisian stage) of Poland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

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Rhaetian

The Rhaetian is the latest age of the Triassic Period (in geochronology) or the uppermost stage of the Triassic System (in chronostratigraphy).

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Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.

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Samuel Stutchbury

Samuel Stutchbury (15 January 1798 – 12 February 1859) was an English naturalist and geologist.

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Sauropodomorpha

Sauropodomorpha (from Greek, meaning "lizard-footed forms") is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives. Thecodontosaurus and Sauropodomorpha are sauropodomorphs.

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Scelidosaurus

Scelidosaurus (with the intended meaning of "limb lizard", from Greek /σκελίς meaning 'rib of beef' and sauros/σαυρος meaning 'lizard')Liddell & Scott (1980). Thecodontosaurus and Scelidosaurus are fossils of England.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Southern England

Southern England, also known as the South of England or the South, is a sub-national part of England with cultural, economic and political differences from both the Midlands and the North.

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Specific name (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).

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Squamata

Squamata (Latin squamatus, 'scaly, having scales') is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards and snakes.

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Streptospondylus

Streptospondylus (meaning "reversed vertebra") is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur known from the Late Jurassic period of France, 161 million years ago.

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Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.

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Tanystropheus

Tanystropheus (~ 'long' + 'hinged') is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile which lived during the Triassic Period in Europe, Asia, and North America.

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Thecodontia

Thecodontia (meaning 'socket-teeth'), now considered an obsolete taxonomic grouping, was formerly used to describe a diverse "order" of early archosaurian reptiles that first appeared in the latest Permian period and flourished until the end of the Triassic period.

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Thecodontosauridae

Thecodontosauridae is a family of basal sauropodomorph dinosaurs that are part of the Bagualosauria, known from fossil remains found exclusively in the Magnesian Conglomerate of Bristol, England, in the Paleobiology Database which dates back to the Rhaetian stage of the Late Triassic (although it could be as old as the Norian stage of the Late Triassic and as young as the Hettangian stage of the Early Jurassic). Thecodontosaurus and Thecodontosauridae are sauropodomorphs.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy.

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thecodontosaurus

Also known as Thecodontosaur, Thecodontosaurs, Thecodontosaurus antiquus, Thecodontosaurus subcylindrodon.

, Sauropodomorpha, Scelidosaurus, Scientific American, Sexual dimorphism, Southern England, Specific name (zoology), Squamata, Streptospondylus, Surgeon, Synonym (taxonomy), Tanystropheus, Thecodontia, Thecodontosauridae, Thomas Henry Huxley, Triassic, Type (biology), Type species, Tytherington, Gloucestershire, University of the West of England, Wales, World War II, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Thecodontosaurus, the Glossary

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See also

Fossil taxa described in 1836

Fossils of Serbia

Late Triassic dinosaurs of Europe

Rhaetian life

Sauropodomorphs

Taxa named by Samuel Stutchbury

Triassic England

References