Describer

Cope, 1876

Time

Cretaceous Late Campanian Maastrichtian

Classification

Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Coelurosauria Maniraptora Troodontidae Nomina Dubia

Diet

Carnivore

Fossilsite

?Judith River Formation (Wedge), Alberta, Canada; Judith River Formation (Wedge), Montana; Hell Creek Formation, Montana; Lance Formation, Wyoming; Fruitland Formation, New Mexico; Laramie Formation, Colorado, US

Length

2 meter

Info

Genus - Typespecies

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]

Teeth.