Pronunciation: THES-kel-o-SOR-uh-day
Author: Charles M. Sternberg
Year: 1937
Meaning: Wondrous lizards (see etymology)
Locomotion: Bipedal (2 legs)
Synonyms: Parksosauridae (Buchholtz, 2002)
Author: Charles M. Sternberg
Year: 1937
Meaning: Wondrous lizards (see etymology)
Locomotion: Bipedal (2 legs)
Synonyms: Parksosauridae (Buchholtz, 2002)
[Brown et al. 2013]Definition
Thescelosaurus neglectus, Orodromeus makelai, their most recent common ancestor, and all descendants.
About
Thescelosauridae is a group of small, two-legged, beaked ornithopod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of North America, Asia and South America. Back in the day, they would have been informally referred to as "hypsilophodonts".
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Etymology
Thescelosauridae is derived from the Greek "theskelos" (wonderful, surprising) and "sauros" (lizard), and the Latin "idae" (family).
Relationships
References
• Sues H-D and Norman DB (1990) "Hypsilophodontidae, Tenontosaurus, Dryosauridae". In Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "The Dinosauria: First Edition".
• Brown CM, Evans DC, Ryan MJ and Russell AP (2013) "New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33(3): 495-520.
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.746229
• Norman DB, Sues H-D, Witmer LM and Coria RA (2004) "Basal Ornithopoda". In Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Varricchio DJ, Martin AJ and Katsura Y (2007) "First trace and body fossil evidence of a burrowing, denning dinosaur". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274 (1616): 1361–1368. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0443
• Holtz jr TR (2008) "The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages".
• Madzia D, Arbour VM, Boyd CA, Farke AA, Cruzado-Caballero P and Evans DC (2021) "The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs". PeerJ, 9: e12362. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12362
