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Tenontosaurus tilletti

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Taxonomy
Tenontosaurus tilletti was named by Ostrom (1970). Its type specimen is AMNH 3040, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AMNH 33-1, Middle Dome, which is in an Albian/Cenomanian terrestrial claystone in the Cloverly Formation of Montana.

It was corrected as Tenontosaurus tillettorum by Olshevsky (1991), Olshevsky (1992), Buchholz (2002) and Parsons and Parsons (2009); it was corrected as Tenontosaurus tilleti by Galton (2009) and Dieudonné et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Tenontosaurus tilletti Ostrom p. 85
1974Tenontosaurus tilletti Langston p. 88
1975Tenontosaurus tilletti Taquet p. 503
1980Tenontosaurus tilletti Sues p. 52
1982Tenontosaurus tilletti Jurcsák p. 181
1989Tenontosaurus tilletti Galton p. 218
1990Tenontosaurus tilletti Sues and Norman p. 500
1991Tenontosaurus tillettorum Olshevsky p. 21
1992Tenontosaurus tillettorum Olshevsky p. 225
1992Tenontosaurus tilletti Weishampel and Heinrich p. 171
1997Tenontosaurus tilletti Kirkland p. 98
1997Tenontosaurus tilletti Maxwell p. 128
1997Tenontosaurus tilletti Turner p. 788
1997Tenontosaurus tilletti Winkler et al. p. 345 fig. 19
1998Tenontosaurus tilletti Brinkman et al. p. 19
1998Tenontosaurus tilletti Lipka
1999Tenontosaurus tilletti Casanovas et al. p. 348
1999Tenontosaurus tilletti Wright p. 215
2002Tenontosaurus tillettorum Buchholz p. 19
2004Tenontosaurus tilletti Norman p. 414
2004Tenontosaurus tilletti Stanford et al. p. 257
2007Tenontosaurus tilletti Hübner and Rauhut p. 372
2008Tenontosaurus tilletti Butler et al. p. 11
2009Tenontosaurus tilletti Butler and Sullivan p. 31
2009Tenontosaurus tilleti Galton p. 215
2009Tenontosaurus tilletti Guenther p. 1429
2009Tenontosaurus tilletti Horner et al. p. 741
2009Tenontosaurus tillettorum Parsons and Parsons p. 721
2010Tenontosaurus tilletorum Carpenter and Ishida p. 155
2010Tenontosaurus tilletti McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39
2011Tenontosaurus tilletti Barrett and Maidment p. 404
2011Tenontosaurus tilletti Zanno and Makovicky p. 318
2012Tenontosaurus tilleti Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14
2012Tenontosaurus tilletti McDonald p. 2
2013Tenontosaurus tilletti Zheng et al.
2015Tenontosaurus tilletti Adams p. 9
2015Tenontosaurus tilletti Frederickson et al. p. 64
2016Tenontosaurus tilletti Dieudonné et al. p. 30
2016Tenontosaurus tilleti Dieudonné et al. p. 66
2018Tenontosaurus tilletti Bell et al. p. 15
2018Tenontosaurus tilletti Frederickson et al. p. 6
2018Tenontosaurus tilletti Herne et al. p. 45
2018Tenontosaurus tilletti Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4
2018Tenontosaurus tilletti Xu et al. p. 562
2019Tenontosaurus tilletti Andrzejewski et al. p. 38
2019Tenontosaurus tilletti Bell et al. p. 3
2019Tenontosaurus tilletti Cruzado-Caballero et al. p. 215
2019Tenontosaurus tilletti Herne et al. p. 551
2019Tenontosaurus tilletti Ibiricu et al. p. 279
2020Tenontosaurus tilletti Dalla Vecchia p. 594
2020Tenontosaurus tilletti Dieudonné et al.
2020Tenontosaurus tilletti Dieudonné et al. p. 411

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
—Clypeodonta
—Iguanodontia()
genusTenontosaurus
speciestilletti

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.

†Tenontosaurus tilletti Ostrom 1970
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available