Re: Echinodon + Stenoplix

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- Fam Jansma <fam.jansma@worldonline.nl> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> Does anyone have any pictures or information (specimens etc.) for these 
> genera that I could
> possibly have? The former one has a small skull picture somewhere published, 
> since I've seen it
> many years back in the bookstore at the AMNH, but lacked the money back than, 
> so I couldn't buy
> the book :( 
> Currently I am working on drawings, mostly reconstructions, for my website 
> and of the parts that
> is going to air first are the basal Ceratopsia. Everyone must be wondering 
> what the hell that
> idiot from Holland is babling about and how this relates to Echinodon, but I 
> have this sneeking
> suspicion that Echinodon might be one of the most basal one yet. Mainly due 
> to the presence of
> caniniform teeth in the premaxilla which is also seen in the (currently) most 
> basal
> Chaoyangosaurus. 

IIRC, Sereno placed _Echinodon_ as a heterodontosaurid, and others have placed
_Heterodontosauridae_ close to _Marginocephalia_ (_Ceratopsia_ + 
_Pachycephalosauria_), so you may
not be far off.

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