Thescelosaurus
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| Thescelosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Thescelosaurus at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | Cerapoda |
| Infraorder: | Ornithopoda |
| Family: | Hypsilophodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Thescelosaurinae |
| Genus: | Thescelosaurus Gilmore, 1913 |
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Thescelosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in forests during the late Cretaceous period in North America, about 77 to 65 million years ago. A Thescelosaurus fossilized four-chambered heart was recently found near Buffalo, South Dakota in USA.
One complete specimen and 8 incomplete Thescelosaurus skeletons, including skin impressions, have been found in Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota in the USA and in Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada.
