Tenontosaurus
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| Tenontosaurus Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous |
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| Mounted skeleton, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | Cerapoda |
| Infraorder: | Ornithopoda |
| Genus: | Tenontosaurus Ostrom, 1970 |
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Tenontosaurus is a genus of medium- to large-sized ornithopod dinosaur. It was formerly thought to be a 'hypsilophodont', but since Hypsilophodontia is no longer considered a clade, it is now considered to be a very primitive iguanodont.
