出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/08 22:18 UTC 版)
Paranthodon (Meaning "Beside Anthodon") was a dinosaur from the early Cretaceous. It lived in what is now South Africa. It is classified as a stegosaur. It has a long and confusing history. The type species, Paranthodon africanus, comes from a partial skull first described as Palaeoscincus africanus in 1912. It was renamed as Paranthodon in 1929 by the famed Franz Nopcsa. It owes its name to the fact that its jaw was found near the fossils of a Permian pareiasaur named Anthodon.