Texasetes
TEX-ah-SEE-teez /ˌtɛksəˈsiːtiːz/
Accepted genus
Texas inhabitant
- Texas · English (place name) · the US state of Texas
- -etes · Greek · inhabitant, dweller
The name combines "Texas", the US state where the fossils were found, with a Greek word meaning "inhabitant" or "dweller". It means "Texas dweller" and refers to where the armoured dinosaur lived. The type species is Texasetes pleurohalio.
- Named by
- Coombs
- Year named
- 1995
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stage
- Albian
- Found in
- Paw Paw Formation, Texas, USA
A small nodosaurid ankylosaur (armoured dinosaur). It is known from fairly fragmentary remains.