Texasetes
Field photograph to come
Texasetes
DV-0386 · type species Texasetes pleurohalio
- Lived
- 106 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Coombs 1995
Field notes
About Texasetes
Texasetes was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 106 to 101 million years ago. It belongs to the family Nodosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Texasetes, from Texas. Its fossils come from the Pawpaw Formation. It was named by Coombs in 1995.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
105 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Nodosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: W. P. Coombs. 1995. A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(2):298-312