Dinosaur genus

Texasetes

Coombs 1995

Texasetes is a dinosaur genus known from bones, found in rocks 106.3–100.5 million years old, in the United States.

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At a glance

Data as of 11 October 2026

106.3–100.5 Ma

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114366

The last non-bird dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. That's as far from us as the end of this bar.

Named by: Coombs 1995
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medium: Only PBDB gives this; nothing contradicts it.
Sources
Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Described in: W. P. Coombs (1995). A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(2): 298–312. Read it
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medium: Only PBDB gives this; its author and year match the naming authority (Coombs 1995).
Sources
Given by: Paleobiology Database. The publication the Paleobiology Database gives as the authority for this genus name, usually the one that first named and described it.
Type species: Texasetes pleurohalio
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medium: Only PBDB gives this; nothing contradicts it.
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Lived: Albian, 106.3–100.5 million years ago
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medium: Only PBDB gives this; nothing contradicts it.
Omnisaura calculation106.3–100.5 million years ago, from its dated fossil records
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low: Omnisaura's calculation from only 1 dated record(s).
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Fossils found in: United States
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low: Only one PBDB record.
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: Union of all sources (ISO 3166).
Rock formations: Pawpaw
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low: Only one PBDB record.
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: Canonical names, automatic and editor-approved matches applied.
Family: Nodosauridae
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medium: Only PBDB gives this; nothing contradicts it.
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Parent group: Nodosauridae
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB leads.
Species named in its records: Texasetes pleurohalio
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Given by: Paleobiology Database (the species its fossil records are identified as).
Diet: herbivore (inferred for its group)
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medium: Only PBDB gives this, and it infers it for the whole of Ornithischia, the group this genus belongs to, not from this genus's own fossils.
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB, inferred from a group the genus belongs to.
Way of life: ground dwelling, gregarious (inferred for its group)
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low: PBDB infers this way of life for the whole of Ornithischia; behaviour is rarely known for one genus.
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Given by: Paleobiology Database. How it was chosen: PBDB, inferred from a group the genus belongs to.
Known from: Bones
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Given by: Paleobiology Database (what the name was based on).

Sources: Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0), Wikidata (CC0 1.0)Confidence levels and gaps are Omnisaura's own assessment.

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What isn't known yet

Order: no source we use gives it yet.
Common names: no source we use gives it yet.
What it was named after: no source we use gives it yet.
Held back: 1 fossil record left out: identified only tentatively (for example "cf.", "?" or the name in quotation marks).
Resting on one source: 6 facts come from a single source with nothing against them (rated medium): authority (PBDB); type species (PBDB); parent group (PBDB); family (PBDB); age (headline) (PBDB); diet (PBDB).

Size and appearance aren't covered yet, and diet and way of life only as PBDB infers them for the wider group. Omnisaura leaves the rest out rather than guess.

Where sources disagree

None open. Where our sources overlap, they agree on everything shown here.

Did it meet…?

Did Texasetes meet ?

No. Texasetes had gone at least 16.9 million years before Tyrannosaurus appears in the fossil record.

Going by the ages and rock formations of their dated fossils, as on the map. Compare their fossil sites on the map.

Connections

Genera linked to Texasetes by where and when their fossils were found, by classification and by who named them. Select a name to open its page.

Same family: Nodosauridae 17

Other genera in Nodosauridae with a full profile.

Acantholipan Animantarx Anoplosaurus Borealopelta Edmontonia Gastonia Glyptodontopelta Hoplitosaurus Hungarosaurus Hylaeosaurus Niobrarasaurus Nodosaurus Panoplosaurus Polacanthus Sauropelta Silvisaurusand 1 more

Found in United States 27

Other genera found in United States, from rocks of overlapping age, the most fossil sites there first.

Tenontosaurus Deinonychus Caririchnium Magnoavipes Sauropelta Hadrosauropodus Oryctodromeus Acrocanthosaurus Amblydactylus Microvenator Macroelongatoolithus Sauroposeidon Tetrapodosaurus Animantarx Aquilops Arkansaurusand 11 more

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Paleobiology DatabaseCC BY 4.0 · fossil records, ages, classification
WikidataCC0 1.0 · names and identifiers
OmnisauraOmnisaura editorial · confidence levels and gaps
PaleoMAP PaleoCoastlines (Kocsis and Scotese 2021)CC BY 4.0 · ancient coastlines on the small map
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