Phyllodon henkeli (lat.) Is a species of herbivorous poultry- dinosaur dinosaurs belonging to the Euornithopoda group, living at the end of the Jurassic in the region of present-day Portugal .
| † Phyllodon henkeli |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infraclass : | Archosauromorphs |
| No rank : | Archosauriformes |
| Infrastructure : | † Ornithopods |
| Gender: | † Phyllodon Thulborn, 1975 |
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| International scientific name |
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Phyllodon henkeli
Thulborn, 1973 |
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In 1973 - 1975, Richard Talborn described and named this dinosaur based on a fossil tooth, found in the sixties by Siegfried Henkel in the territory of Leiria County, as a type species of Phyllodon henkeli . The name of the genus comes from other Greek. φυλλον , phyllon - “leaf” and ὀδών , odon - “tooth”. The designation of the species is given in honor of the discoverer.
The holotype, MGSP G5, was found in the Kimmeridge layers of the Guimarato formation . It consists of fragments of teeth and jaw. Due to the fragmented nature of the remains, Phyllodon is labeled nomen dubium . Oliver Rauhut, however, notes that these teeth are not rare in the formation and have been encountered quite frequently since the 18th century .
According to Richard Taluorn, the species Phyllodon henkeli is assigned to the Hypsilophodontidae family. This group is currently regarded as paraphyletic (unnatural), and therefore the species is classified as a group of Euornithopoda .