Manidens | |
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Skull reconstruction | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Family: | †Heterodontosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Heterodontosaurinae |
Genus: | †Manidens Pol et al. 2011 |
Type species | |
†Manidens condorensis Pol et al. 2011
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Manidens is an extinct genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia. It is a sister taxon of the closely related Pegomastax from South Africa.[2] Fossils have been found in the Cañadón Asfalto Formation in Chubut Province, Argentina, considered to be originally dated to the Bajocian, latter were found to be from Toarcian beds.[3]