Thescelosaurus facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Thescelosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Thescelosaurus at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Cerapoda
Infraorder:	Ornithopoda
Family:	Hypsilophodontidae
Subfamily:	Thescelosaurinae
Genus:	Thescelosaurus Gilmore, 1913
Species
T. neglectus Gilmore, 1913 (type) T. garbanii Morris, 1976
Synonyms
Bugenasaura Galton, 1995

Thescelosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in forests during the late Cretaceous period in North America, about 77 to 65 million years ago. A Thescelosaurus fossilized four-chambered heart was recently found near Buffalo, South Dakota in USA.

One complete specimen and 8 incomplete Thescelosaurus skeletons, including skin impressions, have been found in Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota in the USA and in Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada.

Images for kids

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  T. neglectus holotype at the Smithsonian Museum, with skull and neck restored after Camptosaurus

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  Charles Gilmore's 1915 reconstruction of the T. neglectus type specimen

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  Cast of CMN 8537, described as the type specimen for T. edmontonensis (T. sp. per Boyd et al., [2009])

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  Thescelosaurus with skin impressions, Museum of the Rockies specimen 979

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  T. neglectus protofeathered reconstruction

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  Front of reconstructed skeleton, Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center

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  Skull of T. neglectus NCSM 15728 ("Willo") in left and right view

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  T. neglectus scaly restoration

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  "Willo" specimen, with the possible heart left of the shoulder blade

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  "Willo"'s supposed "heart"

See also

In Spanish: Thescelosaurus para niños