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Deinodon

Deinodon
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Lectotype tooth of D. horridus (specimen ASNP 9534)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: †Tyrannosauridae
Subfamily: †Deinodontinae
Cope, 1866 emend Brown, 1914 sensu Matthew and Brown, 1922
Genus: †Deinodon
Leidy, 1856
Type species
†Deinodon horridus
Leidy, 1856
Synonyms

Deinodon (Greek for "terrible tooth") is a dubious tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus containing a single species, Deinodon horridus. D. horridus is known only from a set of teeth found in the Late Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana and named by paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1856.[1] These were the first tyrannosaurid remains to be described and had been collected by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden.[1] The teeth of Deinodon were slightly heterodont, and the holotype of Aublysodon can probably be assigned to Deinodon.[2]

  1. ^ a b Leidy, J. (1856). "Notices of the remains of extinct reptiles and fishes, discovered by Dr. F.V. Hayden in the badlands of the Judith River, Nebraska Territory." Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 8(2): 72.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference lambe1902 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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