Urbacodon
| Urbacodon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Troodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Troodontinae |
| Genus: | †Urbacodon Averianov & Sues, 2007 |
| Species: | †U. itemirensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Urbacodon itemirensis Averianov & Sues, 2007
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Urbacodon (meaning "URBAC tooth") is a genus of troodontid dinosaur, a type of small carnivore. It lived in Uzbekistan during the early Late Cretaceous Period, about 95 million years ago.
Discovery and naming
On 9 September 2004, a lower jaw of a small
The type species, Urbacodon itemirensis, was named by Alexandr Averianov and Hans-Dieter Sues in 2007. The first part of the generic name Urbacodon is an acronym, honouring the Uzbek, Russian, British, American and Canadian scientists who participated in its discovery. This acronym was combined with a Greek ὀδών, odon, "tooth". The specific name refers to the provenance from Itemir.[1]
The name was based on the
Description
The holotype dentary of U. itemirensis is 79.2 millimetres long (3.12 in) and has 32 tooth positions. It is rather straight in top view. The teeth are closely packed but between the front twenty-four teeth and the rear eight teeth, a distinctive gap is present, a
Classification
Averianov and Sues viewed Urbacodon as more
See also
References
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- ^ Lü J.-C, Xu L., Liu Y.-Q., Zhang X.-L., Jia S. & Ji Q., 2010, "A new troodontid (Theropoda: Troodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of central China, and the radiation of Asian troodontids", Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(3): 381-388