[D] Diplotomodon horrificus [dG] [T]
Describer
Leidy, 1868
Time
Cretaceous Late
Classification
Saurischia Theropoda Incertae Sedis Nomina Dubia
Diet
Carnivore
Fossilsite
\\\"Green-sand-Formations\\\" (probably either the Navesink Formation or Mount Laural Formation) of Glouchester County, New Jersey, US
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Diplotomodon horrificus (Leidy, 1868) = Tomodon horrificus (Leidy, 1865) preoccupied)
Is named on a single tooth, now lost, Leidy, (1865) suggested that the tooth was plesiosaurian and later (1868) that it might be fish. Welles (1952) recognized it as theropod. Preim (1914) figured an apparently similar tooth from the Campanian phosphates of Wadi Oum Hemaiet, Egypt.
Although the type tooth, broad and symmetrical in lateral view rather than recurved, is simular to some of those of Carcharodontosaurus (Stromer, 1931) , it is also similar to the tooth third from the front in the jaw fragment of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis (Cope, 1871). It may be an isolated tooth of that species.
Leidy, 1868
Time
Cretaceous Late
Classification
Saurischia Theropoda Incertae Sedis Nomina Dubia
Diet
Carnivore
Fossilsite
\\\"Green-sand-Formations\\\" (probably either the Navesink Formation or Mount Laural Formation) of Glouchester County, New Jersey, US
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Diplotomodon horrificus (Leidy, 1868) = Tomodon horrificus (Leidy, 1865) preoccupied)
Is named on a single tooth, now lost, Leidy, (1865) suggested that the tooth was plesiosaurian and later (1868) that it might be fish. Welles (1952) recognized it as theropod. Preim (1914) figured an apparently similar tooth from the Campanian phosphates of Wadi Oum Hemaiet, Egypt.
Although the type tooth, broad and symmetrical in lateral view rather than recurved, is simular to some of those of Carcharodontosaurus (Stromer, 1931) , it is also similar to the tooth third from the front in the jaw fragment of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis (Cope, 1871). It may be an isolated tooth of that species.