Diodorus scytobrachion

Diodorus Temporal range: Late Triassic, 216 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Dentary and tooth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	†Silesauridae
Clade:	†Sulcimentisauria
Genus:	†Diodorus Kammerer, Nesbitt, & Shubin, 2012
Species:	†D. scytobrachion
Binomial name
†Diodorus scytobrachion Kammerer, Nesbitt, & Shubin, 2012

Diodorus is a genus of silesaurid dinosauriforms (relatives of basal dinosaurs) from the Late Triassic (Carnian - Norian) of the of Morocco. It is named after Diodorus, a legendary king of the Berber people and son of Sufax, the founder of Tangier and also in honour of Diodorus Siculus, a 1st-century Greek historian who wrote about North Africa. The specific epithet, scytobrachion, is ancient Greek for "leather armed", but also honors , a mythographer who chronicled the mythical history of North Africa.^{[citation needed]} The holotype and all referred remains were found in a single quarry at the base of the Irohalene Mudstone Member of the in the northeastern , 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) east of , Morocco.

Left femur

Limb elements

Diodorus can be distinguished from other silesaurids by the presence of forward-slanted teeth that decrease in size towards the front end of the dentary (lower jaw) and a distinct side ridge running parallel to the dentary tooth socket margin. In a phylogenetic analysis, Diodorus was found to be the sister taxon to the Brazilian silesaurid Sacisaurus.^[1]

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