Alternative spelling: Thescelesaurus
Synonym: Bugenasaura Galton 1995
Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1913. A new dinosaur from the Lance Formation of Wyoming. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Publications 61(5):1-5
Parent taxon: Clypeodonta according to P.-E. Dieudonné et al. 2020
See also Alifanov and Saveliev 2014, Boyd et al. 2009, Breithaupt 1985, Brown and Druckenmiller 2011, Brown et al. 2013, Buchholz 2002, Butler et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Charig 1967, Clemens 1986, Cooper 1985, Dodson 1997, Eberth 1997, Eberth et al. 2001, Estes 1964, Galton 1974, Galton 1974, Galton 1989, Galton 1995, Galton 1999, Galton 2009, Gilmore 1913, Gilmore 1915, Grigorescu 1992, Han et al. 2012, Hay 1930, Herne et al. 2019, Huene 1927, Huene 1934, Kuhn 1964, Lull 1924, Madzia et al. 2018, Matthew 1915, McIntosh 1981, Milner and Norman 1984, Nopcsa 1928, Norman 1984, Norman 1989, Norman et al. 2004, Ostrom 1965, Parks 1926, Parks 1935, Parsch 1963, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Russell 1930, Ryan 1997, Ryan and Evans 2005, Sereno 1986, Simmons 1965, Sternberg 1937, Sues 1997, Sues and Norman 1990, Swinton 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Thulborn 1970, Thulborn 1970, Thulborn 1971, Thulborn 1974, Thulborn 1975, Weishampel and Heinrich 1992, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983, Winkler et al. 1997 and Wolberg 1980
Sister taxa: Hypsilophodontidae, Iguanodontia, Proyandusaurus, Hypsilophodontoidea
Subtaxa: Bugenasaura infernalis Thescelosaurus assiniboiensis Thescelosaurus edmontonensis Thescelosaurus garbanii Thescelosaurus neglectus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (13: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), United States (42: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 55 collections each including a single occurrence
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