Anoplosaurus
Field photograph to come
Anoplosaurus
DV-0040
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Seeley 1879
Field notes
About Anoplosaurus
Anoplosaurus was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 94 million years ago. It belongs to the family Nodosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Anoplosaurus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Upper Greensand Formation. It was named by Seeley in 1879.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
95 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Nodosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. G. Seeley. 1879. On the Dinosauria of the Cambridge Greensand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35:591-636