Richardoestesia
| Richardoestesia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Possible Early Cretaceous (Barremian) records from teeth of the Cedar Mountain Formation, but see .
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| Tooth of cf. R. gilmorei with close up of denticles | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Coelurosauria |
| Genus: | †Richardoestesia Currie, Rigby & Sloan, 1990 |
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| †Richardoestesia gilmorei Currie, Rigby & Sloan, 1990
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Richardoestesia is a morphogenus of theropod dinosaur teeth, originally described from the Late Cretaceous of what is now Canada, the United States, and possibly also Uzbekistan. It currently contains two species, R. gilmorei and R. isosceles, and a possible third, R. asiatica, although it has been classified in its own genus Asiamericana. It has been used as a morphotaxon to describe other theropod teeth widely displaced in time and space from the type species. If all teeth assigned to the genus are truly reflective of the animals biology and taxonomic state (as some teeth go as far back as the Late Jurassic), it would have been one of the longest lasting dinosaur genera, perhaps also being the most widely distributed.