Dimodosaurus

two-toothed lizard

• di- · Greek · two
• modos / odous (genitive odontos) · Greek · tooth
• -saurus · Greek · lizard

Dimodosaurus is built from the Greek roots "di-" (two), "odous/odontos" (tooth), and "sauros" (lizard), giving the meaning "two-toothed lizard." The name was likely chosen to reflect a distinctive dental feature observed in the fossil material. It was named in the late 19th century from material found in Europe.

Named by

Pidancet and Chopard

Year named

1862

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Norian

Found in

France (possibly also Switzerland)

Dimodosaurus is generally considered a nomen dubium (a doubtful name). It was described from fragmentary Late Triassic material from France and is thought to be a prosauropod (plateosaurid-grade sauropodomorph), but the material is too incomplete to be confidently assigned to or diagnosed as a distinct genus. It is sometimes mentioned in connection with Plateosaurus but is not formally synonymised with it.