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Thescelosauridae
Taxonomy
Thescelosauridae was named by Sternberg (1937). Its type is Thescelosaurus. It was considered monophyletic by Brown et al. (2013).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hypsilophodontidae by Kuhn (1964), Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Brachypoda by Thulborn (1974), Thulborn (1977); to Iguanodontia by Russell (1984); to Ornithopoda by Brown et al. (2013); and to Neornithischia by Madzia et al. (2018), Herne et al. (2019), Barta and Norell (2021), Bonde et al. (2022).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hypsilophodontidae by Kuhn (1964), Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Brachypoda by Thulborn (1974), Thulborn (1977); to Iguanodontia by Russell (1984); to Ornithopoda by Brown et al. (2013); and to Neornithischia by Madzia et al. (2018), Herne et al. (2019), Barta and Norell (2021), Bonde et al. (2022).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Thescelosauridae Sternberg p. 375 |
| 1964 | Thescelosauridae Tatarinov p. 570 |
| 1974 | Thescelosauridae Thulborn p. 172 |
| 1977 | Thescelosauridae Thulborn p. 726 fig. 1 |
| 1984 | Thescelosauridae Russell p. 29 |
| 2013 | Thescelosauridae Brown et al. p. 497 |
| 2018 | Thescelosauridae Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4 |
| 2019 | Thescelosauridae Herne et al. p. 573 |
| 2021 | Thescelosauridae Barta and Norell |
| 2022 | Thescelosauridae Bonde et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Thescelosauridae Sternberg 1937
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Subfm. †Orodrominae Brown et al. 2013
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Subfm. †Thescelosaurinae Sternberg 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available