Palaeoscincus
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| phylum | Chordata | Palaeoscincus (meaning "ancient skink") is a dubious genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur based on teeth from the mid-late Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana. Like several other dinosaur genera named by Joseph Leidy (Deinodon, Thespesius, and Trachodon), it is an historically important genus with a convoluted taxonomy that has been all but abandoned by modern dinosaur paleontologists.
For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Like Trachodon, a name which was historically used for complete specimens now known as Edmontosaurus, the name Palaeoscincus was often, during the 20th century, applied to more complete specimens now known as Edmontonia. As a result, many "Palaeoscincus" toys are techincally based on Edmontonia or even other ankylosaurs, including Ankylosaurus itself. Get back to Thyreophora |
| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | Ornithischia | |
| Infraorder | Thyreophora | |
| family | Nodosauridae | |
| genus | Palaeoscincus | |
| Temporal range | Early Cretaceous |
