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RE: Stormbergia dangershoeki, new Early Jurassic ornithischian from South Africa

Tim Williams wrote-

Butler, R.J. (2005). The 'fabrosaurid' ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa and Lesotho. Zoological Journal (London) 145: 175-218. 

The phylogeny found (23 taxa, 73 characters, CI .776) is...

|--Marasuchus
|--Saurischia
`--+--Pisanosaurus
  `--+--+--Scutellosaurus
     |  `--+--Emausaurus
     |     `--+--Stegosauria
     |        `--+--Scelidosaurus
     |           `--Ankylosauria
     `--+--Lesothosaurus
        |--SAM-PK-K8025
        `--+--Stormbergia
           `--+--Agilisaurus
              `--+--"Yandusaurus" multidens
                 `--+--+--Heterodontosaurus
                    |  `--Abrictosaurus
                    `--+--Jeholosaurus
                       |--Hypsilophodon
                       |--Gasparinisaura
                       |--Thescelosaurus
                       |--Parksosaurus
                       |--Iguanodontia
                       `--+--Pachycephalosauria
                          `--Ceratopsia

Genasaurian (and neornithischian) Lesothosaurus, non-cerapodan heterodontosaurids...

Mickey Mortimer