[D] Meniscoessus caperatus
Describer
Marsh, 1889
Time
Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian
Classification
Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Coelurosauria Maniraptora Troodontidae Nomina Dubia
Diet
Carnivore
Fossilsite
Laramie Formation, Colorado, US
Fall Under
Paronychodon lacustris
Info
Paronychodon lacustris (Cope, 1876) = Zapsalis abradens (Cope, 1877 not 1876) [Nomina Dubia] = Zaphsalis abradus, (Hatcher vide Stanton & Hatcher, 1905) [sic] Paronychodon explanatus ? (Cope, 1876 / Olshevsky, 1995) [Nomina Dubia] = Laelaps explanatus (Cope, 1876) [Nomina Dubia] = Aublysodon explanatus (Cope, 1876 / Hatcher, 1903) [Nomina Dubia] = Deinodon explanatus (Cope, 1876 / Lambe, 1902) [Nomina Dubia] = Dromaeosaurus explanatus (Cope, 1876 / Kuhn, 1939) [Nomina Dubia] = Dryptosaurus explanatus, (Cope, 1876 / Hay, 1902) [Nomina Dubia] Paronychodon caperatus ?, (Marsh, 1889 / Olshevsky, 1991) [Nomina Dubia] = Tripriodon caperatus, (Marsh, 1889) [Nomina Dubia = Meniscoessus caperatus, (Marsh, 1889) [Nomina Dubia] = Triprotodon carperatus, (Chure & McIntosh, 1989) [sic] = Dipriodon caperatus, (Currie, Rigby & Sloan, 1990) [sic]
The genus Meniscoessus was named by Cope E.D. in 1882, for a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. In 1889 Marsh described a carnivorous dinosaur as \\\"Meniscoessus\\\".