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APATODON mirus |
| DESCRIBER | Marsh, 1877 |
| TIME | |
| CLASSIFICATION | Dinosauria? |
| DIET | Carnivore |
| FOSSILSITE | Morrison Formation, Rocky Mountains region. US |
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| INFO |
"deceptive tooth" named for what Marsh thought was "a portion of a lower jaw" of an animal with a tooth deceptively resembling "in form and superior surface of the crown, that of a typical Suilline [pig]. Holotype- (USMN coll.) partial vertebra (lost) Originally described as the partial mandible of a large suid mammal, but Baur (1890) identified it as a partial dinosaurian vertebra. What exactly it is will remain a mystery, as the specimen is lost. Olshevsky (1991) synonymized it with Allosaurus, but there is no justification for this. It is Dinosauria indet. |
