Not to be confused with Denver the Last Dinosaur, an animated TV series.
Denversaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 68–66 Ma
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Skeleton cast of Denversaurus ("Tank"), Houston Museum of Natural Science
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Ankylosauria
Family:
†Nodosauridae
Subfamily:
†Nodosaurinae
Clade:
†Panoplosaurini
Genus:
†Denversaurus Bakker, 1988
Type species
†Denversaurus schlessmani
Bakker, 1988
Denversaurus (meaning "Denver lizard") is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian of Late Cretaceous Western North America. Although at one point treated as a junior synonym of Edmontonia by some taxonomists, current research indicates that it is its own distinct nodosaurid genus.
of Denversaurus was disputed in a 1990 paper on ankylosaurian systematics by Kenneth Carpenter, who noted that Bakker's diagnosis of Denversaurus was...
Panoplosaurini includes not only the Late Cretaceous Panoplosaurus, Denversaurus and Edmontonia, but also the mid Cretaceous Animantarx and Texasetes...
2001.12.158, a skull. Edmontonia schlessmani was a renaming in 1992 of Denversaurus schlessmani ("Schlessman's Denver lizard") by Adrian Hunt and Spencer...
Formation. Marsh described the squamosal along with the dermal armor of Denversaurus as the body armor of Triceratops in 1892, believing that the squamosal...
annectens, the parksosaurid Thescelosaurus, the ankylosaurs Ankylosaurus and Denversaurus, the pachycephalosaurs Pachycephalosaurus and Sphaerotholus, and the...
pachycephalosaurians. Three ankylosaurians are known: Ankylosaurus, Denversaurus, and possibly a species of Edmontonia or an undescribed genus. Multiple...
Pendulum on display. Quartz crystal from Hot Springs, Arkansas, on display. Denversaurus and the "Wyrex" Tyrannosaurus specimen exhibited in the Morian Hall of...
ornithopod Thescelosaurus the ankylosaur Ankylosaurus and the nodosaurs Denversaurus, Glyptodontopelta and Edmontonia. Predatory dinosaurs from this time...
breakdown, but were relatively rare. Other dinosaurs, such as Sphaerotholus, Denversaurus, Torosaurus, Struthiomimus, Acheroraptor, Dakotaraptor, Pectinodon, a...
frill were a Denversaurus schlessmani cervical spine, the scutes on the flank were indeterminate ankylosaurian osteoderms (either Denversaurus or Ankylosaurus...
remove a specimen from Edmontonia longiceps making it the new genus Denversaurus, and identify a former specimen of Panoplosaurus mirus as P. sp.. To...
pachycephalosaurians. One ankylosaurian and two nodosaurians are known, Ankylosaurus, Denversaurus and possibly Edmontonia. Multiple genera of ceratopsians are known from...
Formation, India An ankylosaur, originally described as a stegosaur. †Denversaurus †Denversaurus schlessmani 68–66 Ma Lance Formation, South Dakota, USA An ankylosaur...
Delapparentia – junior synonym of Iguanodon Deltadromeus Demandasaurus Denversaurus Deuterosaurus – subsequently found to be a therapsid Diabloceratops Diamantinasaurus...
also known from the lower Dinosaur Park Formation and closely related Denversaurus. Euoplocephalus E. tutus Walter Coombs (1971) synonymised Anodontosaurus...
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