Dyoplosaurus
Field photograph to come
Dyoplosaurus
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Parks 1924
Field notes
About Dyoplosaurus
Dyoplosaurus was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ankylosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Dyoplosaurus, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the Dinosaur Park Formation. It was named by Parks in 1924.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: W. A. Parks. 1924. Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus, a new genus and species of armoured dinosaur; and notes on a skeleton of Prosaurolophus maximus. University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series 18:1-35