Bissektipelta
Field photograph to come
Bissektipelta
DV-0535 · type species Bissektipelta archibaldi
- Lived
- 94 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- Uzbekistan
- Named by
- Parish and Barrett 2004
Field notes
About Bissektipelta
Bissektipelta was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 90 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ankylosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Bissektipelta, from Uzbekistan. Its fossils come from the Bissekty Formation. It was named by Parish and Barrett in 2004.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. C. Parish and P. M. Barrett. 2004. A reappraisal of the ornithischian dinosaur Amtosaurus magnus Kurzanov and Tumanova 1978, with comments on the status of A. archibaldi Averianov 2002. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41:299-306