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DescriptionParanthodon.png	English: Reconstructed skull of Paranthodon africanus (Broom, 1912) Nopcsa, 1929. This skull reconstruction is based upon the figures in Galton & Coombs (1981), and Raven & Maidment (2018) with the rear of the skull and lower jaw based upon Stegosaurus stenops USNM 4934. White material is known, based upon BMNH 47337, the holotype front portion of jaw, BMNH 47338, a matrix including some impressions and teeth, and BMNH 49992, including teeth. Scale bar is 10cm. References: Broom, R. (1912). "Observations on some specimens of South African fossil reptiles preserved in the British Museum". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 2: 19–25. doi:10.1080/00359191009519357 Nopsca, F. (1929). "Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenburgen V. Geologica Hungarica. Series Palaeontologica". Fasciculus 4: 1–76 Galton, P.M.; Coombs, W.P. Jr. (1981). "Paranthodon africanus (broom) a stegosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of South Africa". Geobios 14(3): 299–309. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(81)80177-5 Raven, T.J.; Maidment, S.C.R. (2018). "The systematic position of the enigmatic thyreophoran dinosaur Paranthodon africanus, and the use of basal exemplifiers in phylogenetic analysis". PeerJ 6: e4529. doi:10.7717/peerj.4529
Date	1 September 2014
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