Antarctopelta
Field photograph to come
Antarctopelta
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 4 m (13 ft)
- Group
- Ankylosaurs
- Found in
- Antarctica
- Named by
- Salgado and Gasparini 2006
Field notes
About Antarctopelta
Antarctopelta was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Antarctopelta, from Antarctica. Its fossils come from the Snow Hill Island Formation. It was named by Salgado and Gasparini in 2006.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Antarctopelta?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Parankylosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. Salgado and Z. Gasparini. 2006. Reappraisal of an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island (Antarctica). Geodiversitas 28(1):119-135