Dracopelta
Field photograph to come
Dracopelta
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- Lived
- 145 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs
- Found in
- Portugal
- Named by
- Galton 1980
Field notes
About Dracopelta
Dracopelta was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 145 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Dracopelta, from Portugal. Its fossils come from the Freixial Formation. It was named by Galton in 1980.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
145 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton. 1980. Partial skeleton of Dracopelta zbyszewskii n. gen. and n. sp., an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Géobios 13(3):451-457