Oryctodromeus cubicularis Varricchio et al. 2007 (ornithischian)

Reptilia - Neornithischia - Thescelosauridae

Full reference: D. J. Varricchio, A. J. Martin, and Y. Katsura. 2007. First trace and body fossil evidence of a burrowing, denning dinosaur. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274:1361-1368

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

See also Andrzejewski et al. 2019, Bell et al. 2018, Brown et al. 2013, Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2019, Duncan et al. 2021, Krumenacker 2010, Krumenacker et al. 2017, Krumenacker et al. 2022, Párraga and Prieto-Márquez 2019, Ullmann et al. 2012, Varricchio et al. 2007 and Yang et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MOR 1636a, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Lima Peaks (MOR), which is in an Albian floodplain mudstone/sandstone in the Blackleaf Formation of Montana.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Lima Peaks (MOR)

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