- Diplotomodon
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Diplotomodon
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70 MaScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda Superfamily: ?Tyrannosauroidea Genus: Diplotomodon
Leidy, 1868Species - D. horrificus Leidy, 1865 (type)
Diplotomodon (meaning "double cutting tooth") is a dubious genus of dinosaur from New Jersey. It is only known from a single tooth found in either the Navesink or Hornerstown Formation, dating to the Maastrichtian age of the late Cretaceous period. It may be synonymous with Dryptosaurus.[1]
Joseph Leidy originally described the tooth using the name Tomodon, but the name had already been used for a genus of snake and he changed it in 1868. Only the type species, Diplotomodon [=Tomodon] horrificus (Leidy, 1865) has been described.
References
- ^ Molnar, (1990). "Problematic Theropoda: "Carnosaurs"." Pp. 306-317 in Weishampel et al. (eds.), The Dinosauria. Berkeley: University of California Press.
External links
- The Theropod Database on Diplotomodon
Categories:- Dinosaurs of North America
- Theropods
- Cretaceous dinosaurs
- Tyrannosaurs
- Nomina dubia
- Theropod stubs
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