Tichosteus

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Tichosteus Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Ornithischia Suborder: Ornithopoda Infraorder: ?Iguanodontia Genus: Tichosteus Cope, 1877
Species
T. lucasanus Cope, 1877 (type) (nomen dubium) T. aequifacies Cope, 1877 (nomen dubium)

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. Two 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.

[edit] References

• Tichosteus in the Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair