Prodeinodon

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Prodeinodon
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous

Extinct (fossil)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda

species

P. mongoliensis (type)
P. kwangshiensis
"P. tibetensis" (informal)

Prodeinodon (meaning "Before Deinodon") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian stages) of China and Mongolia. Three species have been identified, all three known only from tooth fragments showing no diagnostic features, making them difficult to classify, though they may belong to a carnosaur.

The type species, P. mongoliensis, was described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1905. A second species, P. kwangshiensis, was identified in 1975. "P. tibetensis" has not been formally described.