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Taxon: Order †Lesothosauria Olshevsky, 1991 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia

Phylogeny

Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para) Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149 ("Paraorder").

Original position

Ornithischia (Superorder) Seeley, 1887 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149.

Original entries

Alocodon (Genus) Thulborn, 1973, nom. dub. Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149.
Fabrosaurus (Genus) Ginsburg, 1964, nom. dub. Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149.
Lesothosauridae (Family) Halstead & Halstead, 1981 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149.
Questionably Nanosaurus (Genus) Marsh, 1877 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149 ("referred to this family provisionally").
Questionably Technosaurus (Genus) Chatterjee, 1984 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149 ("provisional").
Trimucrodon (Genus) Thulborn, 1973, nom. dub. Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149.

Current position

Ornithischia (Clade) Seeley 1887 [Padian & May 1993] Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013 (Olshevsky, 1992).

Alternative positions

Ornithischia (Superorder) Seeley, 1887 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149. [new taxon]

Historical positions

Ornithischia (Superorder) Seeley, 1887 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 149. [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

1991 G. Olshevsky: 149 †1f;6(2)g;7(2)s
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