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Tenontosaurus, the Glossary

Tenontosaurus is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur.^[1]

Acrocanthosaurus

Acrocanthosaurus is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the Aptian and early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous, from 113 to 110 million years ago. Tenontosaurus and Acrocanthosaurus are early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America, paleontology in Maryland and paleontology in Oklahoma.

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Actinopterygii

Actinopterygii, members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.

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Albanerpeton

Albanerpeton is an extinct genus of salamander-like albanerpetontid amphibian found in North America, Europe and Asia first appearing in Cretaceous-aged strata.

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Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.

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Anabisetia

Anabisetia is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of Patagonia, South America. Tenontosaurus and Anabisetia are ornithischian genera.

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Ankylopollexia

Ankylopollexia is an extinct clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous. Tenontosaurus and Ankylopollexia are iguanodonts.

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Antlers Formation

The Antlers Formation is a stratum which ranges from Arkansas through southern Oklahoma into northeastern Texas. Tenontosaurus and Antlers Formation are paleontology in Oklahoma.

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Apex predator

An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.

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Aptian

The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Arundel Formation

The Arundel Formation, also known as the Arundel Clay, is a clay-rich sedimentary rock formation, within the Potomac Group, found in Maryland of the United States of America. Tenontosaurus and Arundel Formation are Cretaceous Maryland and paleontology in Maryland.

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Astrodon

Astrodon (aster: star, odon: tooth) is a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, measuring in length, in height and in body mass. Tenontosaurus and Astrodon are Cretaceous Maryland, early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America and paleontology in Maryland.

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Barnum Brown

Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), commonly referred to as Mr.

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Bernissartia

Bernissartia ('of Bernissart') is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived in the Early Cretaceous, around 130 million years ago.

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Big Horn County, Montana

Big Horn County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana.

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Biological specimen

A biological specimen (also called a biospecimen) is a biological laboratory specimen held by a biorepository for research.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Carnosauria

Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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Cedar Mountain Formation

The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to a distinctive sedimentary geologic formation in eastern Utah, spanning most of the early and mid-Cretaceous. Tenontosaurus and Cedar Mountain Formation are paleontology in Utah.

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Changchunsaurus

Changchunsaurus (meaning "Changchun lizard") is an extinct genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from Early Cretaceous deposits of Gongzhuling, Jilin, China. Tenontosaurus and Changchunsaurus are ornithischian genera.

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Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Cloverly Formation

The Cloverly Formation is a geological formation of Early and Late Cretaceous age (Valanginian to Cenomanian stage) that is present in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in the western United States. Tenontosaurus and Cloverly Formation are Cretaceous Montana.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Crurotarsi

Crurotarsi is a clade of archosauriform reptiles that includes crocodilians and stem-crocodilians and possibly bird-line archosaurs too if the extinct, crocodile-like phytosaurs are more distantly related to crocodiles than traditionally thought.

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Cycad

Cycads are seed plants that typically have a stout and woody (ligneous) trunk with a crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and (usually) pinnate leaves.

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Deinonychus

Deinonychus is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur with one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus. Tenontosaurus and Deinonychus are early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America and taxa named by John Ostrom.

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Desert climate

The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dryosauridae

Dryosauridae was a family of primitive iguanodonts, first proposed by Milner & Norman in 1984. Tenontosaurus and Dryosauridae are iguanodonts.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Femur

The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.

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Fern

The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Gar

Gars are an ancient group of ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae.

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Gasparinisaura

Gasparinisaura (meaning "Gasparini's lizard") is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. Tenontosaurus and Gasparinisaura are ornithischian genera.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Ginkgo

Ginkgo is a genus of non-flowering seed plants.

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Glyptops

Glyptops is an extinct genus of pleurosternid freshwater turtle known from the Late Jurassic of North America.

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Gobiconodon

Gobiconodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammals (or possibly non-mammalian mammaliaforms) belonging to the family Gobiconodontidae. Tenontosaurus and Gobiconodon are Albian genus extinctions.

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Goniopholididae

Goniopholididae is an extinct family of moderate-sized semi-aquatic neosuchian crocodyliformes.

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Goniopholis

Goniopholis (meaning "angled scale") is an extinct genus of goniopholidid crocodyliform that lived in Europe and North America during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.

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Gymnosperm

The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes, forming the clade Gymnospermae.

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Gyronchus

Gyronchus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.

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Hadrosauridae

Hadrosaurids, or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.

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Histology

Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissues.

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Hybodus

Hybodus (from ύβος, 'crooked' and ὀδούς 'tooth') is an extinct genus of hybodont that lived from the Middle Triassic to the Late Cretaceous periods.

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Hypsilophodon

Hypsilophodon (meaning "high-crested tooth") is a neornithischian dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period of England. Tenontosaurus and Hypsilophodon are ornithischian genera.

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Hypsilophodontidae

Hypsilophodontidae (or Hypsilophodontia) is a traditionally used family of ornithopod dinosaurs, generally considered invalid today.

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Iani

Iani (after Ianus) is an extinct genus of rhabdodontomorph iguanodontian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah, United States. Tenontosaurus and Iani are iguanodonts, ornithischian genera and paleontology in Utah.

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Idaho

Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Iguanodon

Iguanodon (meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. Tenontosaurus and iguanodon are early Cretaceous ornithopods, iguanodonts, Multispecific non-avian dinosaur genera and ornithischian genera.

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Iguanodontidae

Iguanodontidae is a family of iguanodontians belonging to Styracosterna, a derived clade within Ankylopollexia. Tenontosaurus and Iguanodontidae are iguanodonts.

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Jeholosaurus

Jeholosaurus is a genus of neornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. Tenontosaurus and Jeholosaurus are ornithischian genera.

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John Ostrom

John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Lepisosteus

Lepisosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae.

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Lissodus

Lissodus is an extinct genus of hybodont.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Lungfish

Lungfish are freshwater vertebrates belonging to the class Dipnoi.

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Macronaria

Macronaria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Microvenator

Microvenator (meaning "small hunter") is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Cloverly Formation in what is now south central Montana. Tenontosaurus and Microvenator are early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America, fossil taxa described in 1970 and taxa named by John Ostrom.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Natural environment

The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Ontogeny

Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult.

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Ornithomimidae

Ornithomimidae (meaning "bird-mimics") is an extinct family of theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches.

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Ornithopoda

Ornithopoda is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods.

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Orodromeus

Orodromeus (meaning "Mountain Runner") is a genus of herbivorous orodromine thescelosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Tenontosaurus and Orodromeus are ornithischian genera.

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Oviraptorosauria

Oviraptorosaurs ("egg thief lizards") are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America.

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Paluxy Formation

The Paluxy Formation is a geological formation found in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous.

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Paracimexomys

Paracimexomys is a genus of extinct mammals in the extinct Multituberculata order.

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Parker County, Texas

Parker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Parksosaurus

Parksosaurus (meaning "William Parks's lizard") is a genus of neornithischian dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. Tenontosaurus and Parksosaurus are ornithischian genera.

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Pascal Godefroit

Pascal Godefroit is a Belgian paleontologist.

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Perot Museum of Nature and Science

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science (shortened to Perot Museum) is a natural history and science museum in Dallas, Texas in Victory Park.

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Rhabdodontidae

Rhabdodontidae is a family of herbivorous iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaurs whose earliest stem members appeared in the middle of the Lower Cretaceous.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Sauropelta

Sauropelta (meaning 'lizard shield') is a genus of nodosaurid dinosaur that existed in the Early Cretaceous Period of North America. Tenontosaurus and Sauropelta are early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America, fossil taxa described in 1970, ornithischian genera and taxa named by John Ostrom.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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Sauroposeidon

Sauroposeidon (meaning "lizard earthquake god", after the Greek god Poseidon) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and fossilized trackways that have been found in the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas. Tenontosaurus and Sauroposeidon are Albian genus extinctions, Aptian genus first appearances, Cretaceous Oklahoma, Cretaceous Texas, early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America and paleontology in Oklahoma.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Subtropics

The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.

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Talenkauen

Talenkauen is a genus of basal iguanodont dinosaur from the Campanian or Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous Cerro Fortaleza Formation, formerly known as the Pari Aike Formation of Patagonian Lake Viedma, in the Austral Basin of Santa Cruz, Argentina. Tenontosaurus and Talenkauen are ornithischian genera.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.

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Thescelosaurus

Thescelosaurus (ancient Greek θέσκελος- (theskelos-) meaning "godlike", "marvellous", or "wondrous" and σαυρος (sauros) "lizard") was a genus of neornithischian dinosaur that appeared at the very end of the Late Cretaceous period in North America. Tenontosaurus and Thescelosaurus are Multispecific non-avian dinosaur genera and ornithischian genera.

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Tibia

The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.

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Tree fern

The tree ferns are arborescent (tree-like) ferns that grow with a trunk elevating the fronds above ground level, making them trees.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Turtle

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.

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Twin Mountains Formation

The Twin Mountains Formation, also known as the Twin Mak Formation, is a sedimentary rock formation, within the Trinity Group, found in Texas of the United States of America.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenontosaurus

Also known as Eureodon, Tenantosaurus, Tenontosaurus dossi, Tenontosaurus tilletti.

, Hypsilophodon, Hypsilophodontidae, Iani, Idaho, Iguanodon, Iguanodontidae, Jeholosaurus, John Ostrom, Late Cretaceous, Lepisosteus, Lissodus, Louisiana, Lungfish, Macronaria, Mammal, Maryland, Microvenator, Montana, Natural environment, North America, Oklahoma, Ontogeny, Ornithomimidae, Ornithopoda, Orodromeus, Oviraptorosauria, Paluxy Formation, Paracimexomys, Parker County, Texas, Parksosaurus, Pascal Godefroit, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Rhabdodontidae, River delta, Sauropelta, Sauropoda, Sauroposeidon, Species, Subtropics, Talenkauen, Texas, Theropoda, Thescelosaurus, Tibia, Tree fern, Tropics, Turtle, Twin Mountains Formation, Type species, Tyrannosaurus, Utah, Wayan Formation, Western Interior Seaway, Wyoming, Yale University, Yandusaurus, Zephyrosaurus, 1970 in paleontology.

Tenontosaurus, the Glossary

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See also

Albian genus extinctions

Aptian genus first appearances

Cretaceous Idaho

Cretaceous Maryland

Cretaceous Montana

Cretaceous Oklahoma

Cretaceous Texas

Cretaceous Utah

Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America

Early Cretaceous ornithopods

Fossil taxa described in 1970

Fossils of Montana

Fossils of Texas

Ornithopods of North America

Paleontology in Idaho

Paleontology in Maryland

Paleontology in Oklahoma

Taxa named by John Ostrom

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