Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 104.5–97 Ma
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Pelvic armor
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Ankylosauria
Family:
†Nodosauridae
Subfamily:
†Nodosaurinae
Clade:
†Struthiosaurini
Genus:
†Stegopelta Williston, 1905
Species:
†S. landerensis
Binomial name
†Stegopelta landerensis
Williston, 1905
Stegopelta (meaning "roofed shield") is a genus of struthiosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur. It is based on a partial skeleton from the latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian-age Lower and Upper Cretaceous Belle Fourche Member of the Frontier Formation of Fremont County, Wyoming, USA.
Stegopelta (meaning "roofed shield") is a genus of struthiosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur. It is based on a partial skeleton from the latest Albian-earliest...
type specimen remains the only definite specimen of Nodosaurus, though Stegopelta has been considered a synonym in the past, it is most likely a distinct...
in 1919, who created the term to unite Ankylosaurus, Hierosaurus and Stegopelta. The name has been significantly refined in content since Abel first used...
believed it to be at least very close to, or completely a part of the genus Stegopelta, and Brown himself placed it within the suborder Stegosauria. It has previously...
remains, and claimed that Ankylosaurus was merely a synonym of the genus Stegopelta, which Williston had named in 1905. Williston also stated that a skeletal...
have been an indiscriminate bulk-feeder due to the shape of its snout Stegopelta 1905 Frontier Formation (Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, Albian to...
Squalodon – subsequently found to be a cetacean Staurikosaurus Stegoceras Stegopelta Stegosaurides Stegosaurus Stegouros Stellasaurus Stenonychosaurus Stenopelix...
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