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armored dinosaur
Texasetes
Say it like this: “tek-sa-SEE-teez”
Texasetes pleurohalio
Texasetes ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1995 · Coombs, W. P.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States · Paw Paw
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- armored dinosaur · Ankylosaur
- Family branch
- Nodosauridae
The story in short
The genus Texasetes dates to 1995, the year W. P. Coombs described it. The name means “texas resident.”
Fossils referred to Texasetes date to the Early Cretaceous (Albian), roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Paw Paw Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
The fossils of Texasetes are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Nodosauridae, among the armored dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Acantholipan
Acantholipan gonzalezi
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) · roughly 85.7 to 83.6 million years ago
Animantarx
Animantarx ramaljonesi
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
Anoplosaurus
Anoplosaurus curtonotus
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago