Holotype specimen on display at the San Diego Natural History Museum, California.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Ankylosauria
Clade:
†Euankylosauria
Genus:
†Aletopelta Ford & Kirkland, 2001
Species:
†A. coombsi
Binomial name
†Aletopelta coombsi
Ford & Kirkland, 2001
Aletopelta (/əˌliːtoʊˈpɛltəˈkoʊmzi/; meaning 'wanderer shield') is a monospecific genus of basal ankylosaurid dinosaur from Southern California that lived during the Late Cretaceous (upper Campanian stage, 75.5 Ma) in what is now the Point Loma Formation. The type and only species, Aletopelta coombsi, is known from a partial skeleton preserving osteoderms. It was originally described in 1996 by W. P. Coombs, Jr. and T.A. Deméré before being named in 2001 by Tracy Ford and James Kirkland. Aletopelta has an estimated size of 5 metres (16 feet) and weight of 2 tonnes (4,409 lbs). The holotype formed a miniature reef and was scavenged upon by invertebrates and sharks.
Aletopelta (/əˌliːtoʊˈpɛltə ˈkoʊmzi/; meaning 'wanderer shield') is a monospecific genus of basal ankylosaurid dinosaur from Southern California that lived...
more than thirty specimens, twenty-six of which are preserved together Aletopelta 2001 Point Loma Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) United States...
within Ankylosauridae, as either within a polytomy with Liaoningosaurus, Aletopelta, Chuanqilong, Gobisaurus and Shamosaurus or as sister taxon to Chuanqilong...
western coast of the United States, the other two being the Campanian Aletopelta coombsi, and the sea bird Ichthyornis. Additionally there are a number...
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