Describer

Currie, Rigby & Sloan, 1990

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]

Note:

Dipriodon is and remains a mammal genus, so it is only the >species< caperatus that is the junior synonym of Paronychodon lacustris, not that Dipriodon is a junior synonym of Paronychodon. (The type species of Dipriodon is not D. caperatus.) The species caperatus was originally proposed for the genus Tripriodon, another mammal genus, In (Currie, P. J., Rigby, Jr., J. K., and Sloan, R. E. (1990). Theropod teeth from the Judith River Formation of southern Alberta, Canada. pp. 107-125 in K. Carpenter and P.J. Currie (eds.), Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches. Cambridge University Press, New York.). Currie et al confused it with Dipriodon. Both Di- and Tripriodon are Marsh 1889. Source: George Olshevsky

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