| Polyodontosaurus Temporal range: Campanian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Troodontidae |
| Genus: | †Polyodontosaurus Gilmore, 1932 |
| Species: | †P. grandis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Polyodontosaurus grandis Gilmore, 1932
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Polyodontosaurus (meaning "many-toothed lizard") is a potentially dubious genus of troodontid dinosaur named in 1932 by Charles W. Gilmore for a left dentary from the Dinosaur Park Formation.[1] It had been considered a synonym of Stenonychosaurus or Troodon for a significant time, before being declared a nomen dubium. The only known species is the type, P. grandis.
- ^ Gilmore, C. W. (1932). A new fossil lizard from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, section 4, series 3 16:117-119