Antrodemus

Antrodemus ("chamber bodied") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic, probably the Morrison Formation, of Middle Park, Colorado.

The first described fossil specimen was a bone obtained secondhand by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden in 1869 (original discoverer unknown).

[1] Hayden sent his specimen to Joseph Leidy, who identified it as half of a tail vertebra, and tentatively assigned it to the European dinosaur genus Poekilopleuron as Poicilopleuron [sic] valens, based on the shared presence of a large medullary cavity.

[4] Subsequent authors have agreed with this assessment and have considered Antrodemus a nomen dubium.

For years, that skeletal mount was presented to the visitors under the taxonomic name Antrodemus, before the specimens from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry were attributed to Allosaurus.

The Antrodemus skeleton (now Allosaurus) on display at Princeton's Department of Geosciences in Guyot Hall
Allosaurus mount at Princeton's Department of Geosciences in Guyot Hall.