| Diplotomodon Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Superfamily: | ?Tyrannosauroidea |
| Genus: | Diplotomodon Leidy, 1868 |
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Diplotomodon (meaning "double cutting tooth") is a dubious genus of dinosaur from New Jersey. It is only known from a single tooth found in either the Navesink or Hornerstown Formation, dating to the Maastrichtian age of the late Cretaceous period. It may be synonymous with Dryptosaurus.[1]
Joseph Leidy originally described the tooth using the name Tomodon, but the name had already been used for a genus of snake and he changed it in 1868. Only the type species, Diplotomodon [=Tomodon] horrificus (Leidy, 1865) has been described.