Thescelosauridae

† Thescelosauridae is a family of small to medium ornithopod dinosaurs including Thescelosaurus, from Cretaceous Canada. These herbivores occupied low-browsing ecological niches and survived until the very end of the Cretaceous period.

Diet & Feeding

Herbivore

Thescelosauridae 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 Late Mesozoic Era

Thescelosauridae lived during the Cretaceous Late period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 100,5 to 66,0 million years ago.

La era final de los dinosaurios, con especies icónicas como Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops y Velociraptor. Los dinosaurios alcanzaron su máxima diversidad antes de que el catastrófico impacto de un asteroide en el cráter Chicxulub pusiera fin a la Era Mesozoica.