Tenontosaurus Ostrom 1970 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234

Parent taxon: Iguanodontia according to P.-E. Dieudonné et al. 2020

See also Buchholz 2002, Butler et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Coria and Calvo 2002, Coria and Salgado 1996, Galton 1974, Galton 1989, Galton 2009, Galton and Jensen 1979, Guenther 2009, Han et al. 2012, Herne et al. 2019, Kirkland 1997, Langston 1974, Madzia et al. 2018, McDonald 2012, McDonald et al. 2010, Milner and Norman 1984, Molnar 1980, Norman 1984, Norman 1989, Norman 1990, Norman 2004, Novas et al. 2004, Ostrom 1970, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2007, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2010, Russell 1984, Sereno 1986, Sereno 1997, Sereno 1998, Sereno 1999, Stanford et al. 2004, Sues 1980, Sues and Norman 1990, Taquet 1975, Thomas 2015, Thulborn 1974, Verdú et al. 2021, Weishampel 2006, Weishampel and Heinrich 1992, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983 and Winkler et al. 1997

Sister taxa: Albisaurus, Albisaurus scutifer, Anoplosaurus major, Bihariosaurus, Camptosauroidea, Choyrodon, Convolosaurus, Dryomorpha, Elasmaria, Eucercosaurus, Eucercosaurus tanyspondylus, Euiguanodontia, Fulgurotherium, Iguanodon ottingeri, Iguanodontoidea, Iyuku, Loncosaurus, Mantellisaurus, Osmakasaurus, Planicoxa, Rhabdodontomorpha, Sektensaurus, Sphenospondylus, Syngonosaurus, Syngonosaurus macrocercus, Tichosteus, Vectisaurus, Yueosaurus

Subtaxa: Tenontosaurus dossi Tenontosaurus tilletti

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Type: Tenontosaurus tilletti

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (83: Arizona, Idaho, Maryland, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming collections)

Total: 83 collections each including a single occurrence

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