Stenopelix valdensis Meyer 1857 (ceratopsian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Chaoyangsauridae

Alternative combinations: Stenopelyx valdensis, Stenoplyx valdensis

Full reference: H. v. Meyer. 1857. Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss fossiler Reptilien [Contributions to the detailed knowledge of fossil reptiles]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1857:532-543

Belongs to Stenopelix according to E. M. Morschhauser et al. 2019

See also Becerra et al. 2016, Bell et al. 2018, Bunzel 1871, Butler and Sullivan 2009, Butler et al. 2008, Charig 1967, Dames 1884, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Dodson 1990, Han et al. 2012, Hornung and Reich 2007, Hübner 2016, Huxley 1870, Koken 1887, Kuhn 1964, Maryanska et al. 2004, Maryańska and Osmólska 1974, Meyer 1857, Nopcsa 1901, Olshevsky and Ford 1994, Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2006, Schmidt 1969, Sereno 2000, Sues and Galton 1982, Sullivan 2006, Swinton 1936, Swinton 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Van Den Broeck 1900, Williamson and Carr 2003, Windolf 1998, Yang et al. 2020 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GZG 741/2 (formerly GPI 741-1, 2), a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Harrl quarry, Bückeburg, which is in a Berriasian terrestrial sandstone in the Bückeberg Formation of Germany.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Harrl quarry, Bückeburg

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