Komlosaurus

Komlosaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Genus: †Komlosaurus
Species: †K. carbonis
Binomial name
Komlosaurus carbonis
Kordos, 1983

Komlosaurus ("Komlo lizard") is a poorly known ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Baranya, Hungary. The type species, Komlosaurus carbonis, was described by Kordos in 1983. The type remains come from the Mecsek Coal Formation, from the Middle Hettangian to the Early Sinemurian, and comprise a few footprints and a few fossils – two vertebrae, and some teeth.

In the Hettangian/Sinemurian deposits of the Komló area (Mecsek Mountain, Hungary), footprints of Jurassic dinosaurs assigned to the ichnospecies K. carbonis are the only published palaeontological data of this region. The footprints, which form tracks, occur in several levels on bedding planes of fine-grained sediments.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The largest occurrence of fossils is at the Karolina and Vasas strip mines in the Mecsek Mountain nearby Pécs. The footprints collection of Komlosaurus can be seen at the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary, with a few specimens in the Local History Museum of Komló, Hungary.

Taxonomy

Despite its poorly preserved fossils, mainly of footprints, Komlosaurus has been placed in many different positions in the ornithischian family tree. It was originally placed in the family Fabrosauridae, which is no longer considered valid by most paleontologists. Based on the teeth, the remains are now attributed to a taxon related to heterodontosaurs.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kordos, L. (1983). "Fontosabb szórványleletek a máfi gerinces-gyüjteményében (8. közlemény)" [Major finds of scattered fossils in the paleovertebrate collection of the Hungarian Geological Institute (communication no. 8)]. A Magyar Állami Földtani Intézet Évi Jelentése. 120: 503–511.
  2. ↑ Lockley, M. G.; Meyer, Christian (13 August 2013). Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe. Columbia University Press. pp. 115–. ISBN 978-0-231-50460-7.
  3. ↑ Instytut Geologiczny (Poland), Geological quarterly, Volume 40. 1996
  4. ↑ Società geologica italiana, Bollettino della Società geologica italiana, Volume 124. 2005
  5. ↑ "Komlosaurus carbonis Kordos 1983". Gni.globalnames.org. 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  6. ↑ "TDWG". Lsid.tdwg.org. Retrieved 2016-12-04.

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