Dromaeosauroides

Dromaeosaurus-like form

• dromaios · Greek · swift, running
• sauros · Greek · lizard
• -oides · Greek · resembling, having the form of

The name means "resembling Dromaeosaurus". It was chosen because the only known fossil, a tooth, looks like the teeth of the North American dromaeosaurid Dromaeosaurus. Dromaeosaurus itself means "running lizard".

Named by

Christiansen and Bonde

Year named

2003

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Berriasian

Found in

Jydegaard Formation, Bornholm, Denmark

The type species is Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis. It is known only from a single tooth and is the first dinosaur named from Denmark. Because the material is so scant, some researchers question how diagnostic it is. It is generally treated as a small theropod related to dromaeosaurids.