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Troodon (/ ˈ t r oʊ. ə d ɒ n / TROH-ə-don; Troödon in older sources) is a former wastebasket taxon and a potentially dubious genus of relatively small, bird-like theropod dinosaurs definitively known from the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous period (about 77 million years ago). It includes at least one species, Troodon formosus, known ...
The generic name comes from Talos, a giant bronze automaton in Greek mythology and is intended to be a pun on the English word talon. The specific name honors television paleontologist Dr. Scott D. Sampson for researching and collecting fossils during the Kaiparowits Basin Project.
Interest in the life history of Troodon continued in the 1990s with a study of its growth rates based on histological sections of fossils taken from a bonebed in Montana [4] and the apparent pairing of eggs in Troodon nests. [5] This decade also saw the first potential report of European troodontid remains, although this claim has been ...
Birger Bohlin described the new species Troodon bexelli. [7] 1955. Edwin Colbert first suggested that the domed heads of pachycephalosaurs were used as "battering ram[s]". [4] 1956. Science fiction author Sprague de Camp was the first to specifically suggest that pachycephalosaurs used their domed heads to butt heads with other ...
Other dinosaurs, such as Sphaerotholus, Denversaurus, Torosaurus, Struthiomimus, Acheroraptor, Dakotaraptor, Pectinodon, Richardoestesia, Paronychodon, Anzu, Leptorhynchos and Troodon (more likely Pectinodon), were reported as being rare and are not included in the breakdown.
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Latenivenatrix, meaning "hiding huntress", is a genus of large troodontid known from a single species, L. mcmasterae.Along with the contemporary Stenonychosaurus, it is known from non-tooth fossils that were formerly assigned to the now potentially dubious genus Troodon.