<form id=\"\\"quickModForm\\"\" style=\"\\"margin:\" 0px;\\\"=\"\" action=\"\\"http://www.dinodata.info/index.php?action=quickmod2;topic=658.0\\"\" method=\"\\"post\\"\" name=\"\\"quickModForm\\"\" accept-charset=\"\\"UTF-8\\"\"> <div class=\"\\"windowbg2\\"\"> <div class=\"\\"post_wrapper\\"\"> <div class=\"\\"postarea\\"\"> <div class=\"\\"post\\"\"> <div id=\"\\"msg_658\\"\" class=\"\\"inner\\"\"><strong>Describer</strong><br><br>Cope, 1876<br><br><strong>Time</strong><br><br>Cretaceous Late Campanian<br><br><strong>Classification</strong><br><br>Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Nomina Dubia <br><br><strong>Diet </strong><br><br>Herbivore<br><br><strong>Fossilsite</strong><br><br>US<br><br><strong>Info</strong><br><br>Genus<br><br>The dentition on the species of this genus shows that but one tooth in mature functional use existed in a line transverse to the axis of the jaw at one time, and that alternating with these, one partially protruded crown, and one stump of a crown, present masticating surfaces in transverse relation. <br><br>The name contrasts with Monoclonius \\\"single sprout,\\\" described in the same 1876 paper and originally misidentified as a Hadrosaurus-like dinosaur with supposedly only a single row of functional teeth in its jaw.<br><br>In 1883 Cope used the name [\\\"Diclonius mirabilis\\\"] for a large, well-preserved specimen of a flat-headed Lance hadrosaur (now called Anatotitan copei), on the grounds that Leidy supposedly had abandoned the generic name Trachodon.<br><br>However, Cope\\\'s original name-bearing type specimens for Diclonius were only isolated teeth, now considered inadequate for a genus-level diagnosis.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </form></div>