Describer

Owen, 1876

Classification

Not considered dinosaur

Info

Paranthodon was named for specimens with \\\"flower-shaped teeth\\\" that Owen classified as dinosaurs under the genus Anthodon. The original referred material came from both Upper Permian and Late Cretaceous deposits, however, this included fossils of a [pareiasaur] (now Anthodon) and a stegosaur . Broom reclassified the stegosaur mandible as Palaeoscincus africanus in 1912 Nopcsa renamed the jaw Paranthodon