Thescelosaurus assiniboiensis Brown et al. 2011 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: C. M. Brown, C. A. Boyd, and A. P. Russell. 2011. A new basal ornithopod dinosaur (Frenchman Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada), and implications for late Maastrichtian ornithischian diversity in North America. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163(4):1157-1198

Belongs to Thescelosaurus according to M. C. Herne et al. 2018

See also Brown et al. 2011, Brown et al. 2013, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Madzia et al. 2018 and Yang et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Bugenasaura infernalis, Thescelosaurus edmontonensis, Thescelosaurus garbanii, Thescelosaurus neglectus

Type specimen: RSM P 1225.1, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is North side of the Frenchman River Valley (SMNH), which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Frenchman Formation of Canada.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at North side of the Frenchman River Valley (SMNH)

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