The tooth-based taxon "Aublysodon" was a mystery for a long time since no further skeletal elements were found that could be assigned with certainty to the teeth. In the early twentieth century it was assumed by some workers that it represented a member of the Ornithomimidae when it was not yet known this group was toothless. Lawrence Morris Lambe in 1902 referred the tooth to "Struthiomimus"; Hay in 1930 renamed "A. mirandus" into "Ornithomimus mirandus", forgetting in that case "Aublysodon" would have priority.