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Thescelosauridae

Reptilia - 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) and Kuhn (1966).

It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Brachypoda by Thulborn (1974) and 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) and Bonde et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Thescelosauridae Sternberg p. 375
1964Thescelosauridae Tatarinov p. 570
1974Thescelosauridae Thulborn p. 172
1977Thescelosauridae Thulborn p. 726 fig. 1
1984Thescelosauridae Russell p. 29
2013Thescelosauridae Brown et al. p. 497
2018Thescelosauridae Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4
2019Thescelosauridae Herne et al. p. 573
2021Thescelosauridae Barta and Norell
2022Thescelosauridae Bonde et al.

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Neornithischia()
familyThescelosauridae
familyThescelosauridae

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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G. †Haya Makovicky et al. 2011
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†Haya griva Makovicky et al. 2011
Subfm. †Thescelosaurinae Sternberg 1940
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G. †Nevadadromeus Bonde et al. 2022
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†Nevadadromeus schmitti Bonde et al. 2022
G. †Notohypsilophodon Martínez 1998
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G. †Parksosaurus Sternberg 1937
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†Parksosaurus warreni Parks 1926
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available