The type and only species, G. gibbidens, was originally named Thecodontosaurus gibbidens in 1878,[1] but was moved to a new genus by Hunt and Lucas in 1994.[2] It is based on the lectotype AMNH 2339, discovered by C. M. Wheatley. There is also a genus of flower with the name Galtonia, causing further confusion.
Galtonia, upon being identified as its own genus separate from Thecodontosaurus, was initially classified as an ornithischian, but was seen to be Revueltosaurus, which is actually a non-dinosaurian archosaur. Irmis et al. (2006) even assigned Galtonia to Revueltosaurus.[3]Galtonia is now seen as a possible synonym of Revueltosaurus.
References
^ abCope, E. D. (1878). On some Saurians found in the Triassic of Pennsylvania, by C. M. Wheatley. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17(100):231-232
^Hunt, A. P. and Lucas, S. G., (1994). Ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of the United States. In N. C. Fraser & H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 227-241
^Irmis, R.B., Parker, W.G., Nesbitt, S.J., and Liu, J. (2006). Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology19(1):3-22. doi:10.1080/08912960600719988.
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