Tichosteus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Vertebra from the holotype of T. lucasanus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Family: | †incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Tichosteus Cope, 1877 |
Type species | |
†Tichosteus lucasanus Cope, 1877 (nomen dubium)
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Other species | |
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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.