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Carpenter and Kirkland (1998) listed 12 additional teeth from the same area as the [[holotype]] tooth, and tentatively added a robust [[tibia]] (USNM 9154) to the genus. They found the lack of [[armour (zoology)|armor]] found in the Arundel to be peculiar, but noted that fossils are rare in that formation anyway.<ref name=CK98/> In 2018, three new ankylosaur teeth described from the Potomac Formation were assigned to ''Priconodon crassus'' based on their similarity to the holotype.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Joseph A. Frederickson |author2=Thomas R. Lipka |author3=Richard L. Cifelli |year=2018 |title=Faunal composition and paleoenvironment of the Arundel Clay (Potomac Formation; Early Cretaceous), Maryland, USA |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 21.2.31A |doi=10.26879/847 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In 2023, large ankylosaur fossils (including vertebrae) were announced to be found at [[Dinosaur Park (Prince George's County, Maryland)|Dinosaur Park]] by John-Paul Hodnett,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Domen |first=John |date=2023-07-12 |title=Dinosaur Park in Laurel reveal the largest theropod fossil in Eastern North America |url=https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2023/07/best-dinosaur-site-east-of-the-mississippi-is-in-maryland-and-lots-of-fossils-are-being-found/ |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=WTOP News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Reed |first=Lillian |date=2023-07-12 |title=Maryland before time: Rare dinosaur bone bed uncovered in Prince George’s County |url=https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/science-medicine/acrocanthosaurus-fossil-dinosaur-bones-laurel-maryland-OJBKTS7GL5GO7C2C5LPR4RRANQ/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713143138/https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/science-medicine/acrocanthosaurus-fossil-dinosaur-bones-laurel-maryland-OJBKTS7GL5GO7C2C5LPR4RRANQ/ |archive-date=2023-07-13 |website=The Baltimore Banner}}</ref> which may potentially represent additional specimens of ''Priconodon''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dipiazza |first=Chris |date=2023-07-17 |title=Prehistoric Beast of the Week: Maryland Dinosaurs: Major Discovery! |url=https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2023/07/maryland-dinosaurs-major-discovery.html |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=Prehistoric Beast of the Week}}</ref> |
Carpenter and Kirkland (1998) listed 12 additional teeth from the same area as the [[holotype]] tooth, and tentatively added a robust [[tibia]] (USNM 9154) to the genus. They found the lack of [[armour (zoology)|armor]] found in the Arundel to be peculiar, but noted that fossils are rare in that formation anyway.<ref name=CK98/> In 2018, three new ankylosaur teeth described from the Potomac Formation were assigned to ''Priconodon crassus'' based on their similarity to the holotype.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Joseph A. Frederickson |author2=Thomas R. Lipka |author3=Richard L. Cifelli |year=2018 |title=Faunal composition and paleoenvironment of the Arundel Clay (Potomac Formation; Early Cretaceous), Maryland, USA |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 21.2.31A |doi=10.26879/847 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In 2023, large ankylosaur fossils (including vertebrae and a tail club) were announced to be found at [[Dinosaur Park (Prince George's County, Maryland)|Dinosaur Park]] by John-Paul Hodnett,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Domen |first=John |date=2023-07-12 |title=Dinosaur Park in Laurel reveal the largest theropod fossil in Eastern North America |url=https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2023/07/best-dinosaur-site-east-of-the-mississippi-is-in-maryland-and-lots-of-fossils-are-being-found/ |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=WTOP News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Reed |first=Lillian |date=2023-07-12 |title=Maryland before time: Rare dinosaur bone bed uncovered in Prince George’s County |url=https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/science-medicine/acrocanthosaurus-fossil-dinosaur-bones-laurel-maryland-OJBKTS7GL5GO7C2C5LPR4RRANQ/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713143138/https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/science-medicine/acrocanthosaurus-fossil-dinosaur-bones-laurel-maryland-OJBKTS7GL5GO7C2C5LPR4RRANQ/ |archive-date=2023-07-13 |website=The Baltimore Banner}}</ref> which may potentially represent additional specimens of ''Priconodon''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dipiazza |first=Chris |date=2023-07-17 |title=Prehistoric Beast of the Week: Maryland Dinosaurs: Major Discovery! |url=https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2023/07/maryland-dinosaurs-major-discovery.html |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=Prehistoric Beast of the Week}}</ref> |
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| Priconodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
| Family: | †Nodosauridae |
| Genus: | †Priconodon |
| Species: | †P. crassus
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| †Priconodon crassus Marsh, 1888
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Priconodon (meaning "saw cone tooth"[1]) is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur (perhaps nodosaurid), mainly known from its large teeth. Its remains have been found in the Aptian-Albian age Lower Cretaceous Arundel Formation of Muirkirk, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA and the Potomac Group, also located in Maryland. As an ankylosaur, Priconodon would have been a large armored quadrupedal herbivore, though no size estimation has been done due to the scarcity of described remains.
History of discovery
O. C. Marsh named the genus for USNM 2135, a large worn tooth from what was then called the Potomac Formation. As ankylosaurians were by and large unknown at the time, he compared it to Diracodon (=Stegosaurus) teeth.[2] It was not identified as an ankylosaurian until Walter Coombs assigned it to Nodosauridae in 1978.[3]
In 1998 Kenneth Carpenter and James Kirkland, in a review of North American Lower Cretaceous ankylosaurs, considered it tentatively valid as an unusually large nodosaurid, larger than all those described before.[4] Carpenter (2001) retained it as a valid nodosaurid, but did not employ it in his phylogenetic analysis.[5] Vickaryous et al. (2004), in a review of armored dinosaurs, considered it to be dubious without comment.[6] West and Tibert, however, followed this with a preliminary account of a morphometric study that found it to be a unique genus.[7]
Additional specimens
Carpenter and Kirkland (1998) listed 12 additional teeth from the same area as the holotype tooth, and tentatively added a robust tibia (USNM 9154) to the genus. They found the lack of armor found in the Arundel to be peculiar, but noted that fossils are rare in that formation anyway.[4] In 2018, three new ankylosaur teeth described from the Potomac Formation were assigned to Priconodon crassus based on their similarity to the holotype.[8] In 2023, large ankylosaur fossils (including vertebrae and a tail club) were announced to be found at Dinosaur Park by John-Paul Hodnett,[9][10] which may potentially represent additional specimens of Priconodon.[11]
See also
References
- ^ "Untitled Document".
- ^ Marsh, O.C. (1888). Notice of a new genus of Sauropoda and other new dinosaurs from the Potomac Formation. American Journal of Science 135:89-94.
- ^ Coombs, Jr., W.P. (1978). The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria. Palaeontology 21(1):143-170.
- ^ a b Carpenter, K., and Kirkland, J.I. (1998). Review of Lower and middle Cretaceous ankylosaurs from North America. In: Lucas, S.G., Kirkland, J.I., and Estep, J.W. (eds.). Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:249-270.
- ^ Carpenter, K. (2001). Phylogenetic analysis of the Ankylosauria. In: Carpenter, K. (ed.). The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press:Bloomington 455-483. ISBN 0-253-33964-2
- ^ Vickaryous, M.K., Maryańska, T., and Weishampel, D.B., (2004). Ankylosauria. In: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press:Berkeley 363-392. ISBN 0-520-24209-2
- ^ "West, A. and Tibert, N. (2004). Quantitative analysis for the type material of Priconodon crassus: a distinct taxon from the Arundel Formation in southern Maryland. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 36(5):423". Archived from the original on 2007-01-06. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
- ^ Joseph A. Frederickson; Thomas R. Lipka; Richard L. Cifelli (2018). "Faunal composition and paleoenvironment of the Arundel Clay (Potomac Formation; Early Cretaceous), Maryland, USA". Palaeontologia Electronica. 21 (2): Article number 21.2.31A. doi:10.26879/847.
- ^ Domen, John (2023-07-12). "Dinosaur Park in Laurel reveal the largest theropod fossil in Eastern North America". WTOP News. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- ^ Reed, Lillian (2023-07-12). "Maryland before time: Rare dinosaur bone bed uncovered in Prince George's County". The Baltimore Banner. Archived from the original on 2023-07-13.
- ^ Dipiazza, Chris (2023-07-17). "Prehistoric Beast of the Week: Maryland Dinosaurs: Major Discovery!". Prehistoric Beast of the Week. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
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