Tichosteus

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iTichosteus
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Infraorder:  ?Iguanodontia
Genus: Tichosteus
Cope, 1877
Species
  • T. lucasanus
  • T. aequifacies

Tichosteus (meaning "walled bone") is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It is known only from Vertebrae recovered from Kimmeridgian rocks in the Morrison Formation, Colorado. Both species, T. lucasanus and T. aequifacies, were named in 1877 by Edward Drinker Cope. It may have been an iguanodont, but the species are nomina dubia and are incertae sedis within Ornithopoda.

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