Tichosteus

Taxobox
name = "Tichosteus"
fossil_range = Late Jurassic


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image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Ornithopoda
infraordo = ?Iguanodontia
familia =
genus = "Tichosteus"
genus_authority = Cope, 1877
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "T. lucasanus" Cope, 1877 (type) ("nomen dubium")
* "T. aequifacies" Cope, 1877 ("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. Two species, "T. lucasanus" and "T. aequifacies", were named in 1877 by Edward Drinker Cope. It may have been an iguanodont, but the species are "nomina dubia" and are "incertae sedis" within Ornithopoda.

References

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a943cb.htm "Tichosteus" in the Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair