Taveirosaurus
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| Taveirosaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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Taveirosaurus (tah-VAY-roo-SAWR-us) (meaning "Taveiro lizard") is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous. Based on teeth, it was originally thought to be a pachycephalosaurian, but it has not been included in this group in recent reviews.[1][2][3]
The genus was named after Taveiro, a village in Portugal near where the fossil was found. It was discovered and described by Telles Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell in 1991.
[edit] References
- ^ Norman, David B.; Witmer, Larry M.; and Weishampel, David B. (2004). "Basal Ornithischia", in Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press, 325-334. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ^ Maryańska, Teresa; Chapman, Ralph E.; and Weishampel, David B. (2004). "Pachycephalosauria", in Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press, 464-477. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert M. (2006). "A taxonomic review of the Pachycephalosauridae (Dinosauria:Ornithischia)". Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35: 347–366.
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