Outline: a typical theropod
Pectinodon
"comb tooth"
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Carpenter 1982
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Pectinodon
What it was like
Pectinodon is known only from teeth. They belong to a troodontid, a small, feathered, big-eyed theropod. The teeth carry large, hooked bumps along their edges, like the teeth of a comb, which gave the genus its name. Some scientists think it is a species of Troodon.
Its world
It lived at the very end of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Wyoming and South Dakota. Its teeth come from the Lance and Hell Creek formations, where it lived alongside Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Edmontosaurus.
How it was found
Carpenter named Pectinodon in 1982.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: K. Carpenter. 1982. Baby dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Lance and Hell Creek formations and a description of a new species of theropod. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 20(2):123-134