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Avalonianus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Genus
  
Avalonianus Kuhn, 1961

Class
  
Reptilia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Similar
  
Ankistrodon, Asiaceratops, Cryptosaurus, Anoplosaurus, Campylodoniscus

Avalonianus is a name used for fossil teeth from the Late Triassic of England. It was first described in 1898 by Harry Seeley with the name Avalonia, but that name was preoccupied (Walcott, 1889), so Kuhn renamed it in 1961. It was thought to be a prosauropod, but later analysis revealed it was actually a chimera, with the original teeth coming from a non-dinosaurian ornithosuchian (or possibly an early theropod), and later-referred post-cranial prosauropod remains (which were renamed Camelotia).

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Avalonianus Wikipedia