Re: Paronychodon lacustris AND B. infernalis

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 03:52 AM 12/3/97 -0500, Dinogeorge wrote:

>
>Paronychodon-like
>
>NESSOV, 1992
>
>Numbers: Not given.
>
>Locality: Dzhyrakuuk, Kizylkum Desert, Uzbekistan.
>
>Horizon: Bissekty Formation, Contancian, Late Cretaceous.
>
>Material: 

This is probably:

Euronychodon asiaticus Nessov 1995.

(previously Paronychodon cf. lacustris Nessov 1985b, Table III, 16; 1986,
Fig. 2, 3)

NIGR N 9/12454

In Nessov's 1995 Dinosaurs of Northern Eurasia, on p. 44.

>I kinda like the idea that some of the Paronychodon specimens, including the
>type tooth, might be the dentary fangs of homalocephalid pachycephalosaurs.
>Compare the dentary fang of Goyocephale, for example...

I kind of like that, actually...

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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