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Polyodontosaurus
Polyodontosaurus
Era: CretaceousDiet: CarnivorousPeriod: Late Cretaceous
Polyodontosaurus (meaning "many-toothed lizard") is a potentially dubious genus of troodontid dinosaur named in 1932 by Charles W. Gilmore for a left dentary from the Dinosaur Park Formation. It had been considered a synonym of Stenonychosaurus or Troodon for a significant time, before being declared a nomen dubium