Tatankacephalus cooneyorum Parsons and Parsons 2009 (ankylosaur)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Nodosauridae

Full reference: W. L. Parsons and K. M. Parsons. 2009. A new ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of central Montana. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 46:721-738

Belongs to Tatankacephalus according to V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie 2016

See also Han et al. 2014, Parsons and Parsons 2009 and Penkalski 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MOR 1073, a partial skull (partial cranium including frag- ments of internasal septum, premaxillary fragments with three alveoli, maxillary-nasal fragment, orbital-postor- bital-quadratoj). Its type locality is MOR CL-016, Middle Dome, which is in an Albian terrestrial mudstone in the Cloverly Formation of Montana.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at MOR CL-016, Middle Dome

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