Species
Valid Extinct

Tenontosaurus tilletti

Ostrom 1970

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
53
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Ornithopoda Suborder
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Iguanodontia Infraorder
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Rhabdodontomorpha Unranked clade
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Tenontosauridae Family
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Tenontosaurus Genus
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Tenontosaurus tilletti Species
Fossil sites 53 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
53
Geological formations
Antlers
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
47
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
6
Bibliography
Original description
J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234
Bibliography (6)
J. R. Nudds, D. R. Lomax, and J. P. Tennant. 2022. Gastroliths and Deinonychus teeth associated with a skeleton of Tenontosaurus from the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Montana, USA. Cretaceous Research 140 DOI ↗
D. Thomas. 2015. The cranial anatomy of Tenontosaurus tilletti Ostrom, 1970 (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda). Palaeontologia Electronica 18(2):37A:1–99 DOI ↗
M. P. J. Oreska, M. T. Carrano, and K. M. Dzikiewicz. 2013. Vertebrate paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), I: faunal composition, biogeographic relationships, and sampling. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(2):264-292 DOI ↗
P. M. Gignac, P. J. Makovicky, and G. M. Erickson, R. P. Walsh. 2010. A description of Deinonychus antirrhopus bite marks and estimates of bite force using tooth indentation simulations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(4):1169-1177 DOI ↗
W. D. Maxwell and J. H. Ostrom. 1995. Taphonomy and paleobiological implications of Tenontosaurus-Deinonychus associations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(4):707-712 DOI ↗
J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234