Diclonius
Diclonius (meaning "double stem") is a name that Edward Drinker Cope gave to some hadrosaurian teeth in 1876. The name is in reference to the tooth roots, which are doubled and in contrast to Monoclonius ("single stem"), which Cope named in the same paper.
Although Cope referred several other batches of teeth to the genus, under several species, the name is considered a nomen nudum.
Species
Type:
- D. pentagonus (Cope, 1876); fragmentary dentary with teeth
Other Species:
- D. calamarius (Cope, 1876); teeth
- D. mirabilis (Cope, 1883); included in part with Trachodon mirabilis and Anatotitan copei
- D. perangulatus (Cope, 1876); teeth
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Original Sources
The structure and appearance of the Laramie dinosaurian. Cope, E. D. AMERICAN NATURALIST xvii; 774-777 (1883).
The status of the dinosaurian genus Diclonius and the taxonomic utility of hadrosaurian teeth. Coombs, W. JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY 62; 812-817 (1988).