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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Dentinogenesis imperfecta''
| fossil_range = [[Jurassic|Early Jurassic]], {{fossil range|200|195}}
| image = Oyt4lbpfa3r01.jpg
| image_caption = Two ''[[Dilophosaurus]]'' attacking a ''Dentinogenesis''
| domain = [[wikipedia:Eukaryote|Eukaryota]]
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Reptile|Sauropsida]]
| superordo = [[Dinosaur]]ia
| ordo = [[Saurischia]]
| clade2 = [[Eusaurischia]]
| subordo = {{extinct}}[[Sauropodomorpha]]
| genus = {{extinct}}'''''Dentinogenesis'''''
| binomial = {{extinct}}''Dentinogenesis imperfecta''
| binomial_authority = Karlos, 1998
}}
'''''Dentinogenesis''''' (meaning 'imperfect dentine formation') is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of basal [[sauropodomorpha|sauropodomorph]] from rocks in either Montana or Conneticut.<ref name="Xinner2019" /> The type and only species is ''D. imperfecta''. It was originally interpreted as a theropod due to the scarcity of the remains.<ref name="Karlos1988">Karlos, Freidrick (1988). "A new theropod (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Montana with perculiar teeth". IVPP. 2991 (5): 78-79.</ref>

==Discovery and naming==
In 1986, paleontologist Freidrick Karlos tracked down an illegally sold dinosaur fossil in Colorado, USA that was probably discovered sometime during the "[[Bone Wars]]".<ref>Mylters, Bob (2006). The Bone Wars Encyclopaedia. United States: Indiana University Press.</ref> It was still encased in the sediment and, after a fifteen hour long acid bath, the fossil was prepared.

It consisted of a weathered maxilla with exceptionally preserved teeth, a scapula and a broken pes. Karlos went on to describe it as the new genus and species ''Dentinogenesis imperfecta'' in 1988 based on the teeth of the animal. He described it as a "long necked theropod, similar to that of ''[[Segnosaurus]]''."<ref name="Karlos1988" />

He was wrong and, in 2019, the genus was reclassified as a basal sauropodomorph by the [[Xinner sisters]].<ref name="Xinner2019">Xinner, Hayley; Xinner, Jane; Xinner, Faith; Xinner, Thomas (2019). "Redescription of ''Dentinogenesis'' (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from ?Conneticut". IVPP. 1984732 (6): 66-121.</ref>

It is not known where the fossil came from, as Karlos 1988 states that it was a theropod that came from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana while Kemp (2015) states that it was a basal sauropod that came from Conneticut. Kemp is probably correct. The sediment was also destroyed during the acid bath, so identification became impossible.

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