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Texasetes

Say it: teks-uh-TEE-teez

Name means: “Texas being”4

Ate: PlantsArmoured dinosEarly Cretaceous

Texasetes was a slow, plant-eating dinosaur covered in tough armour plates. It lived in what is now Texas, USA, about 100 million years ago. It used its armoured body to protect itself from hungry predators.4

Lived

106 to 100 million years ago4

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Texas, USA4

Food

Plants4

Length

3 to 5 m1

estimated from adult length range in PBDB

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

as long as 5 dogs nose to tailas long as 28 bananas end to end

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Fun facts

Texasetes lived about 106 to 100 million years ago, during the Albian age of the Cretaceous Period.4

Its fossils were found in the Pawpaw Formation, which was a shallow sea environment at the time.4

Texasetes was a type of nodosaurid, a group of armoured dinosaurs with spikes on their bodies.1

Scientists think Texasetes was a ground-dwelling animal that moved around on four legs.1

The name Texasetes means 'Texas being', because it was found in Texas.4

AI-made picture of Texasetes — An AI-made picture of how Texasetes might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

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Most asked questions about Texasetes

?How big was Texasetes?

About 3 metres (10 feet) long and weighed roughly 200 kilograms (440 pounds).2

?What did Texasetes eat?

It was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants.2

?Did Texasetes have a tail club?

No. Texasetes was a nodosaurid, so it had spikes on its body but no club on its tail.3

?Where was Texasetes found?

Its fossils were found in the Paw Paw Formation near Haslet, Tarrant County, Texas, USA.4 3

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Myth buster

Myth: Texasetes was a dinosaur that could fly.

Truth: Texasetes was an armoured dinosaur that walked on land. It could not fly.4

For dino experts

Scientific name: Texasetes
Named by: Coombs 19954
Group: Armoured dinos
Family / clade: Nodosauridae4
Classification: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Nodosauridae > Thyreophora4
Age of the rocks: 106 to 100 million years (Albian)4
Rock formations: Pawpaw4
Countries: USA4
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: Texasetes was named by Walter P. Coombs in 1995. The fossils were found at the Blue Mound nodosaur site in Texas, USA.4
Still debated: Scientists are not sure if Texasetes is the same as another armoured dinosaur called Pawpawsaurus, because some researchers think they might be the same animal.1

Where the facts come from

PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
TEXASETES - DinoChecker dinosaur archive (dinochecker.com)
Texasetes (Wikipedia) (Wikipedia)
Texasetes in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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