Thescelosaurus, claw Protoceratops allowing great force to be

allowing great force to be transmitted to the end of the tail when it was swung

Its long tail was stiffened with ligaments and ended in a diamond-shaped vane that was characteristic to Rhamphorhynchus

describing it as a large

east of the ancestral Rocky Mountains

Thescelosaurus, claw Protoceratops allowing great force to beThescelosaurus (pronounced THES ke loh SAWR us) (meaning "Marvelous lizard") was a bipedal, plant eating dinosaur whose fossilized, four chambered heart was found, perhaps indicating that it was warm blooded. It dates from the late Cretaceous period, about 77 to 65 million years ago. It had a small head, a bulky body, a long, pointed tail and short arms. It was a thescelosaurid or hypsilophodontid, and an ornithischian dinosaur about 12 feet (3. 5 m)