Tecovasaurus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tecovasaurus Fossil range: Late Triassic |
||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
Species | ||||||||||||||
|
Tecovasaurus (te-KOH-va-SAWR-us) is an archosauriform genus of unknown affinities (Irmis et al. (2007), initially described as a basal ornithischian dinosaur, and known only from teeth. It is named after the Tecovas Formation, in Texas and Arizona, which yielded the holotype remains.
[edit] References
- Irmis, R.B., Parker, W.G., Nesbitt, S.J., and Liu, J. (2007). Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology 19(1):3-22. DOI: 10.1080/08912960600719988.
- http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/dinosauromorpha.htm