Alocodon

Alocodon; Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Tooth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Order:	†Ornithischia
Clade:	†Neornithischia
Genus:	†Alocodon
Species:	†A. kuehnei
Binomial name
	Alocodon kuehnei; (Thulborn, 1975)

Alocodon (a-LOK-o-don; Greek alox and odon meaning 'furrow' and 'tooth') is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of what is now Portugal. It was described in 1975 by Richard Anthony Thulborn. It had small ornithopod-like teeth with vertical grooves. This animal is only known from these teeth, and is usually considered a nomen dubium.

The type species is Alocodon kuehnei, the specific epithet honoring the German paleontologist Georg Kühne. The holotype is LPFU P X 2.

Though at first it was considered by Thulborn a member of the Fabrosauridae^[1] and by Peter Galton a hypsilophodontid, Paul Sereno (1991) classified A. kuehnei as Ornithischia incertae sedis. Further studies indicate this species as a probable thyreophoran.

Notes

↑ Thulborn, R.A. (1975). "Teeth of ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal, with description of a hypsilophodontid (Phyllodon henkeli gen. et sp. nov.) from the Guimarota lignite", Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal), Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22: 89-134

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