Palaeoscincus costatus, "the ribbed one", thetype species named by Leidy in 1856, known from a single tooth, specimen ANSP 9263 found byFerdinand Vandeveer Hayden nearFort Benton. It was the first ankylosaurian species to be named based on American material;[6] it is now considered an ankylosaurian of unknown affinities.
"P. magoder", anomen nudum name from afaunal list by Karl ("Charles") L. Henning,[6][8] the result of mistaking the German wordsmag oder for aspecific name;
Palaeoscincus tutus, a renaming ofEuoplocephalus tutus byEdwin Hennig in 1915.[10]
Today, the type speciesP. costatus and thereby the genus is considered to be an indeterminate ankylosaurian,[11][12] perhaps an indeterminatenodosaurid.[4][6][13]
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^Lambe, L.M. (1902). "On Vertebrata of the mid-Cretaceous of the Northwest Territory. 2. New genera and species from the Belly River Series (mid-Cretaceous)".Contributions to Canadian Paleontology.3:25–81.
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^Gilmore, C.W. (1930). "On dinosaurian reptiles from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana".Proceedings of the United States National Museum.77 (2839):1–39.doi:10.5479/si.00963801.77-2839.1.
^Hennig, E., 1915,Stegosauria: Fossilium Catalogus I, Animalia pars 9, 16 pp
^Carpenter, K. (2001). Phylogenetic analysis of the Ankylosauria. In: Carpenter, K. (ed.).The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press:Bloomington, 455-483.ISBN0-253-33964-2
^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.ISBN0-520-24209-2
^Ford, T.L. (2000). A review of ankylosaur osteoderms from New Mexico and a preliminary review of ankylosaur armor. In: Lucas, S.G., and Heckert, A.B. (eds.).Dinosaurs of New Mexico.New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:157-176.
