Mymoorapelta
Field photograph to come
Mymoorapelta
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- Lived
- 155 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Kirkland and Carpenter 1994
Field notes
About Mymoorapelta
Mymoorapelta was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 155 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Mymoorapelta, from Colorado and Utah. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation. It was named by Kirkland and Carpenter in 1994.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. I. Kirkland and K. Carpenter. 1994. North America's first pre-Cretaceous ankylosaur (Dinosauria) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of western Colorado. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 40:25-42