Extinct genus of dinosaurs
Spicomellus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic (Bathonian–Callovian),
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Illustration of the holotype.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade :
Dinosauria
Clade :
† Ornithischia
Clade :
† Thyreophora
Clade :
† Ankylosauria
Genus:
† Spicomellus Maidment et al., 2021
Species:
†S. afer
Binomial name
† Spicomellus afer Maidment et al., 2021
Spicomellus is an extinct genus of early ankylosaurian dinosaur from the El Mers III Formation (Bathonian-Callovian) of Morocco. The genus contains a single species, S. afer , known from a single rib with fused osteoderms. Spicomellus represents the oldest named ankylosaur.
Last Update: 2024-04-07T05:56:29Z
from a single rib with fused osteoderms. Spicomellus represents the oldest named ankylosaur. The Spicomellus holotype specimen, NHMUK PV R37412, was discovered...
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they were definitely in Africa by the Bathonian due to the presence of Spicomellus in Morocco. There are no well-preserved remains of ankylosaurs of that...
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sauropods and the unusual thyreophorans Adratiklit, Thyreosaurus, and Spicomellus . The El Mers formations are composed primarily of marls with intermittent...
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of the oldest ankylosaurs, being slightly younger than the Moroccan Spicomellus . While many later-diverging ankylosaurids had bony clubs at the tips...
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