Thescelosaurus

A Thescelosaurus at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois, USA. Size:12 feet in length, 3 ft tall at the hip Weight: 670 lbs when alive.

Figure 32: Right metatarsi of selected ornithopods in proximal view. A–R: (A) Diluvicursor pickeringi; (B) NMV P186047; (C) Morrosaurus antarcticus; (D) Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis; (E) Anabisetia saldiviai; (F) Kangnasaurus coetzeei; (G) Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis; (H) Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki; (I) Dryosaurus altus; (J) Changchunsaurus parvus; (K) Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis; (L) Hypsilophodon foxii; (M) Tenontosaurus tilletti; (N) Cumnoria prestwichii; (O) Muttaburrasaurus langdoni; (P) Talenkauen santacrucensis; (Q) Parksosaurus warreni; and (R) Thescelosaurus assiniboiensis. Metatarsi normalised for dorsoplantar depth of metatarsal II (shaded black). Dashed lines indicate uncertain bone margins. ?, indicates location of uncertain/expected/missing metatarsal. Abbreviation: mt #, metatarsal position. For data sources, see Table S1.

A Thescelosaurus at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois, USA. Size:12 feet in length, 3 ft tall at the hip Weight: 670 lbs when alive.

A Thescelosaurus at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois, USA. Size:12 feet in length, 3 ft tall at the hip Weight: 670 lbs when alive.

A Thescelosaurus at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois, USA. Size:12 feet in length, 3 ft tall at the hip Weight: 670 lbs when alive.

Six neornithischians (top to bottom): Psittacosaurus, Styracosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Kulindadromeus, Hypacrosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus

Six neornithischians (top to bottom): Psittacosaurus, Styracosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Kulindadromeus, Hypacrosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus

Two Thescelosaurus skeletons, North American Museum of Ancient Life.

Badlands Dinosaur Museum, North Dakota 5-9-2022 (157)

Thescelosaurus neglectus, an hypsilophodont from North America, pencil drawing

Thescelosaurus neglectus, a hypsilophodont from the Late cretaceous of North America

Paleoartistic depiction of a Cretaceous forest of what is today the Tanis site, in North Dakota, hours after the K-Pg impact. We observe a burnt carcass of a Thescelosaurus, a impaled nanhsiungchelyid turtle, a small multituberculate mammal and a small ornithuran avialan.

Figure 28: Dorsoventral vertebral proportions on the anterior caudal vertebrae of selected ornithopods. (A) Neural arch height ‘a’ (=height from dorsal tip of the spinal process to top of the centrum, or centre of transverse process base) relative to vertebral height ‘b’ (=vertebral height without haemal arch). (B) Neural arch height ‘a’ relative to vertebral height ‘c’ (=vertebral height including haemal arch). Distances ‘a’ and ‘b’ shown in Figs. 9 and 33 and distance ‘c’ shown in Fig. 9. Data sources, see Table S1. Tabulated data, vertebral positions and specimen numbers, see Table S2.

Left Thescelosaurus holotype forelimb.

Size comparison between the hypsilophodontid Thescelosaurus and a human

Pectoral girdles and forelimbs of dinosaurs in left lateral view, depicting resting scapular and forelimb orientations in different dinosaurian groups as recommended according to the results of this study. In each case, solid horizontal line is parallel to long axis of sacrum. A. theropods without semilunate carpals (Dilophosaurus wetherilli, UCMP 37302). B. theropods with semilunate carpals other than Caudipteryx (Velociraptor mongoliensis, after reference [60]). C. Caudipteryx (C. sp., after reference [8]). D. ceratopsids (Styracosaurus albertensis, NMC 344). E. basal sauropodomorphs (Plateosaurus engelhardti, AMNH 6810). F. non-hadrosaurian ornithopods (Thescelosaurus neglectus, reference [62]). G. hadrosaurids (Parasaurolophus walkeri, after reference [48]). Angle labels: B = scapular orientation relative to long axis of sacrum. E = elbow angle. S = shoulder angle. W = wrist angle. See Materials and Methods section for descriptions of angles.