Manidens

Manidens
Temporal range: Middle Toarcian
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Skull reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Family: Heterodontosauridae
Subfamily: Heterodontosaurinae
Genus: Manidens
Pol et al. 2011
Type species
Manidens condorensis
Pol et al. 2011

Manidens is an extinct genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia. It is a sister taxon of the closely related Pegomastax from South Africa. Fossils have been found in the Cañadón Asfalto Formation in Chubut Province, Argentina, considered to be originally dated to the Bajocian, latter were found to be from Toarcian beds.