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Thescelosaurus

Taxonomy

Thescelosaurus was named by Gilmore (1913). Its type is Thescelosaurus neglectus. It is the type genus of Thescelosaurinae, Thescelosauridae.

It was assigned to Camptosauridae by Gilmore (1913) and Huene (1956); to Thescelosauridae by Sternberg (1937), Rozhdestvensky and Tatarinov (1964) and Thulborn (1974); to Iguanodontidae by Matthew (1915), Galton (1974), Galton (1974) and Thulborn (1975); to Hypsilophodontia by Sereno (1986) and Norman (1989); to Euornithopoda by Norman et al. (2004); to Hypsilophodontidae by Gilmore (1915), Parks (1926), Parks (1926), Russell (1930), Swinton (1936), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Estes (1964), Simmons (1965), Romer (1966), Thulborn (1970), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1970), Thulborn (1971), McIntosh (1981), Milner and Norman (1984), Norman (1984), Cooper (1985), Carroll (1988), Galton (1989), Sues and Norman (1990), Grigorescu (1992), Weishampel and Heinrich (1992), Galton (1995), Winkler et al. (1997), Eberth et al. (2001) and Ryan and Evans (2005); to Neornithischia by Boyd et al. (2009); to Ornithopoda by Butler et al. (2008) and Han et al. (2012); and to Thescelosaurinae by Sternberg (1940), Brown and Druckenmiller (2011) and Brown et al. (2013).

Species

T. assiniboiensis, T. edmontonensis, T. garbanii, T. neglectus (type species)

Sister genera

Changchunsaurus, Haya, Jeholosaurus, Parksosaurus

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Synonyms

Bugenasaura was named by Galton (1995).

It was synonymized subjectively with Thescelosaurus by Boyd et al. (2009).

It was assigned to Hypsilophodontidae by Galton (1995); to Thescelosaurinae by Galton (1999); to Euornithopoda by Norman et al. (2004); and to Ornithopoda by Butler et al. (2008).
Bugenasaura infernalis was named by Galton (1995). Its type specimen is SDSM 7210, a partial skeleton, and it is not a trace fossil.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Boyd et al. (2009).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1913	Thescelosaurus Gilmore p. 1 figs. 1-5
1915	Thescelosaurus Gilmore pp. 612-613
1915	Thescelosaurus Matthew p. 81
1926	Thescelosaurus Parks
1930	Thescelosaurus Russell p. 140
1936	Thescelosaurus Swinton
1937	Thescelosaurus Sternberg p. 375
1940	Thescelosaurus Sternberg
1956	Thescelosaurus Huene
1956	Thescelosaurus Romer p. 628
1964	Thescelosaurus Estes p. 144
1964	Thescelosaurus Kuhn p. 6
1964	Thescelosaurus Rozhdestvensky and Tatarinov
1965	Thescelosaurus Simmons p. 68
1966	Thescelosaurus Romer p. 370
1970	Thescelosaurus Swinton p. 200
1970	Thescelosaurus Thulborn p. 244
1971	Thescelosaurus Thulborn p. 77
1974	Thescelosaurus Galton p. 150
1974	Thescelosaurus Thulborn p. 172
1975	Thescelosaurus Thulborn p. 99
1981	Thescelosaurus McIntosh p. 30
1984	Thescelosaurus Milner and Norman p. 147
1984	Thescelosaurus Norman pp. 342-344 fig. 7
1985	Thescelosaurus Cooper p. 313
1986	Thescelosaurus Sereno
1988	Thescelosaurus Carroll
1989	Thescelosaurus Galton p. 218
1989	Thescelosaurus Norman p. 63
1990	Thescelosaurus Sues and Norman p. 500
1992	Thescelosaurus Grigorescu p. 147
1992	Thescelosaurus Weishampel and Heinrich p. 163
1995	Bugenasaura Galton pp. 307-309
1995	Thescelosaurus Galton pp. 307-308
1995	Bugenasaura Galton pp. 308-309 figs. 5A-C, 6
1995	Bugenasaura infernalis Galton p. 309 figs. 5A-C, 6
1997	Thescelosaurus Winkler et al. p. 345 fig. 19
1999	Bugenasaura Galton p. 518
1999	Bugenasaura infernalis Galton p. 518
2001	Thescelosaurus Eberth et al. p. 66
2004	Bugenasaura Norman et al. p. 394
2004	Bugenasaura infernalis Norman et al. p. 394
2004	Thescelosaurus Norman et al. p. 395
2005	Thescelosaurus Ryan and Evans p. 329
2008	Bugenasaura infernalis Butler et al. p. 9
2008	Bugenasaura Butler et al. p. 21 figs. 2-4
2008	Thescelosaurus Butler et al. p. 21 figs. 2-4
2009	Thescelosaurus Boyd et al. pp. 761-762
2011	Thescelosaurus Brown and Druckenmiller p. 1344
2012	Thescelosaurus Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14
2013	Thescelosaurus Brown et al. p. 512

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