Earth Sciences Unit: New Information on the Thescelosaurus
 Partial skeleton of a Thescelosaurus at the RSM. |
 Drawing of Thescelosaurus by Wes Long RSM |
In the September, 2009 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (29(3): 758-770), authors Clint A. Boyd, C. Marshall Brown, Rodney D. Scheetz, and Julia A. Clarke announced a revision of the genera Thescelosaurus and Bugenasaura. Of the nine semi-complete specimens which are all from the latest Cretaceous, the RSM specimen in the sample is "distinctly different" from the others and suggest that "erecting a new species of this specimen would be premature until" the rest of the skeleton is described. So far, only the skull has been described.
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