Pectinodon Fossil Map Interactive fossil Map of Pectinodon, along with its chronological bar chart of fossil discoveries. In Depth Pectinodon is a small troodontid dinosaur from the very end of the Late Cretaceous. It is known almost entirely from isolated teeth, first described from the Lance Formation of Wyoming. The name means “comb tooth,” in … Read more
In Depth Berthasaura seems to be a bit of a strange dinosaur as even though it has been considered to be a noasaurid theropod dinosaur, Berthasaura possessed a toothless beak. The description of Berthasaura is not actually the first time that a noasaurid theropod has been found without teeth, Limusaurus is also toothless and is … Read more
In Depth Euronychodon is a tooth taxon which means that so far the only known fossils of this dinosaur are teeth. Study of these teeth suggests that they most probably belong to a troodont dinosaur but beyond this further details are impossible to establish. There have been questions raised about the validity of the Euronychodon … Read more
In Depth Named from a combination of the Maori word for ‘ancient’ and the ancient Greek for ‘lizard’, Tuarangisaurus was the second plesiosaur discovered in New Zealand. As an elasmosaurid Tuarangisaurus would have relied upon a combination of its long neck and long sharp teeth to seize prey items such as fish and squid. For … Read more