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Its name apparently means “tooth tyrant”, but medieval reading errors led to a variety of increasingly awkward alternate names and direct translations.When Alexander and his men made camp by a river, they were found by an odontotyrannus coming to the water to drink.
They were said to be totally boneless and to have a large pair of horns, similar to rams’ horns.