Texasetes

Texasetes (meaning "Texas resident") is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaurs from the late Lower Cretaceous of North America. This poorly known genus has been recovered from the Paw Paw Formation (late Albian) near Haslet, Tarrant County, Texas, which has also produced the nodosaurid ankylosaur Pawpawsaurus.

==Discovery and taphonomy == left|thumb|The holotype unguals (bottom) and phalanges (top) at the National Museum of Natural History|USNM. 5 miles south of Haslet near Fort Worth, Texas, fossils of an ankylosaurid were excavated from strata of the upper Albian rocks from Lower Cretaceous in the Pawpaw Formation. The fossils would later become the holotype (USNM 337987) of Texasetes, consisting of a skull fragment, 2 teeth, 5 cervical centra, 3 sacral centra, 16 caudal centra, partial scapulacoracoids, fragmentary pelvis, humeri, femora, tibiae, proximal ulnae, proximal radii, left metacarpal IV, left metatarsal IV, 3 phalanges, 2 unguals, and several osteoderms. These remains had initially been labeled as those of a sauropod, but were many years later recognized as ankylosaurian by M.K. Brett-Surman. They were subsequently studied by ankylosaur expert Walter Preston Coombs, Jr, who named them in 1995 as the type species Texasetes pleurohalio, the generic name meaning "Texas dweller" and the specific name meaning "sea adjacent". Vickaryous et al. (2004) and Coombs (1995) describe Texasetes as having a horizontally oriented ilium, an imperforate acetabulum, and "characteristically ankylosaur scapula morphology, including a prominent acromion and prespinous fossa."