Aachenosaurus

Aachenosaurus ( "lizard from Aachen " ) was the late 19th century as a genus of dinosaurs. Since it is at the fossils, which served as the basis of the scientific description to is petrified wood, Aachenosaurus is considered a noun dubium.

On October 31, 1888 Abbe Gerard Smets found near Aachen in Moresnet in the German -Belgian border area fossils, which he believed to be fragments of a jaw Hadrosauriers. In his scientific description he gave him the name Aachenosaurus multidens. Smets reconstructed the animal as a bipedal, about 4.5 meter long dinosaur that was provided with backing plates. But in the same year saw the Belgian Louis Dollo, that it was at the Fund to petrified wood. Smets doubted then Dollos competence and led the paleontologist George Boulenger and Richard Lydekker as supporters of his interpretation. In their published scientific work, however, they joined Dollos view. Smets retired then largely from paleontology back.