Texasetes
Name: Texasetes
(Texas resident).
Phonetic: Tex-a-set-ees.
Named By: W. P. Coombs - 1995.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauria, Nodosauridae.
Species: T. pleurohalio
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Estimated between 2.5 to 3 meters long.
Known locations: USA, Texas, Tarrant County -
Paw Paw Formation.
Time period: Albian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull fragment and partial
post cranial remains.
Texasetes
was the first armoured nodosaurid
dinosaur to be named from the Paw Paw
Formation of Texas. However a year later a second genus of nodosaur
called Pawpawsaurus
was named, though only represented by a skull.
There has now been suggestions that these two are the same genus,
and if proven true, then the Pawpawsaurus fossil
material, a
skull, will become attributed to Texasetes since
that genus was named
first.
Like
other nodosaurs, Texasetes would have been a
quadrupedal dinosaur
protected by thick bony plates and spikes that ran across its back and
sides. Because of this armour, Texasetes would
have been relatively
slow yet quite resilient to attack from theropod dinosaurs such as
dromaeosaurs.
In the past there has been speculation that Texasetes
may actually be a very primitive ankylosaur.
Further reading
- A nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the
Lower Cretaceous of Texas., W. P. Coombs - 1995.
- A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from
the Paw Paw Formation (Late Albian) of Texas., Y. -N. lee
- 1996.
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