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Thespesius (meaning "wondrous one") is a dubious genus of extinct hadrosaurid dinosaur based on two caudal vertebrae and a phalanx from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of South Dakota (although at first thought to be from the Miocene). Like Trachodon, another duckbill genus named by Joseph Leidy, it is an historically-important genus with a convoluted taxonomy that has been all but abandoned by modern dinosaur paleontologists.

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  • Thespesius
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  • Thespesius (meaning "wondrous one") is a dubious genus of extinct hadrosaurid dinosaur based on two caudal vertebrae and a phalanx from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of South Dakota (although at first thought to be from the Miocene). Like Trachodon, another duckbill genus named by Joseph Leidy, it is an historically-important genus with a convoluted taxonomy that has been all but abandoned by modern dinosaur paleontologists.
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Name
  • Thespesius
Caption
  • Illustration of Thespesius from 1901.
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  • 250(xsd:integer)
Species
  • *T. occidentalis (Leidy, 1856 )
Genus
  • Thespesius (Leidy, 1856)
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  • ?Hadrosaurinae
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  • Dinosauria
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  • Thespesius (meaning "wondrous one") is a dubious genus of extinct hadrosaurid dinosaur based on two caudal vertebrae and a phalanx from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of South Dakota (although at first thought to be from the Miocene). Like Trachodon, another duckbill genus named by Joseph Leidy, it is an historically-important genus with a convoluted taxonomy that has been all but abandoned by modern dinosaur paleontologists. Two other species of duckbill started out as species of Thespesius: T. saskatchewanensis, now thought to be a species of Edmontosaurus; and T. edmontoni, now considered to be the same as Edmontosaurus annectens. Both of them were included in Anatosaurus for many years.
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