Tenontosaurus facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Tenontosaurus Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Mounted skeleton, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Cerapoda
Infraorder:	Ornithopoda
Genus:	Tenontosaurus Ostrom, 1970
Species
T. tilletti Ostrom, 1970 (type) T. dossi Winkler, Murray & Jacobs, 1997

Tenontosaurus is a genus of medium- to large-sized ornithopod dinosaur. It was formerly thought to be a 'hypsilophodont', but since Hypsilophodontia is no longer considered a clade, it is now considered to be a very primitive iguanodont.

Images for kids

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  Restoration of T. tilletti

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  Front part of skeleton

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  T. tilletti with juveniles, in front of Deinonychus

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  Osteohistology of the diaphyseal femur of two juveniles

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  Complete fossil

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  Mounted skeletons of an adult with juveniles

See also

In Spanish: Tenontosaurus para niños