Palaeoscincus

Palaeoscincus (meaning "ancient lizard" from Greek: παλαιόςpalaios and Greek: σκίγγοςskinkos) is a dubiousgenus of ankylosauriandinosaur based on teeth from the mid-late Campanian-age Upper CretaceousJudith River Formation of Montana. Like several other dinosaur genera named by Joseph Leidy (Deinodon, Thespesius, and Trachodon), it is an historically important genus with a convoluted taxonomy that has been all but abandoned by modern dinosaur paleontologists. Because of its wide use in the early 20th century, it was somewhat well known to the general public, often through illustrations of an animal with the armor of Edmontonia and the tail club of an ankylosaurid.