Anoplosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0040Upper Greensand Fm., United Kingdom

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

1 find

95 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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