Texasetes pleurohalio
"Texas resident"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Texasetes 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (100 Mya)
- Place
- North America
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Nodosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Ankylosaurs without the tail club.
Texasetes (meaning “Texas resident”) is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaurs from the late Lower Cretaceous of North America. This poorly known genus has been recovered from the Paw Paw Formation (late Albian) near Haslet, Tarrant County, Texas, which has also produced the nodosaurid ankylosaur Pawpawsaurus.
What we know
- Named by Coombs, 1995.
- Fossils found in North America.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Texasetes — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.