Texasetes pleurohalio

† Texasetes pleurohalio is the type species of Texasetes, known from fragmentary vertebrae and armor from Texas. It represents a primitive nodosaurid lineage in Early Cretaceous North America prior to the major ankylosaur diversification of the Late Cretaceous.

Diet & Feeding

Herbivore

Texasetes pleurohalio was a plant-eating dinosaur. Herbivores typically fed on ferns, cycads, conifers, and other vegetation available during their era. Many herbivorous dinosaurs developed specialized teeth and digestive systems for processing tough plant material.

Time Period

Cretaceous Early Mesozoic Era

Texasetes pleurohalio lived during the Cretaceous Early period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 145.0 to 100.5 million years ago.

The Cretaceous saw continued dinosaur evolution with the rise of ornithopods and early ceratopsians. Flowering plants first appeared and began to transform terrestrial ecosystems. Spinosaurus and other large theropods lived during this time.