Tichosteus

Tichosteus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
Vertebra from the holotype of T. lucasanus
Scientific classification Edit this 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)
Other species
  • T. aequifacies Cope, 1878 (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.


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