Niobrarasaurus
Field photograph to come
Niobrarasaurus
DV-0384
- Lived
- 90 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Carpenter et al. 1995
Field notes
About Niobrarasaurus
Niobrarasaurus was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Nodosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Niobrarasaurus, from Kansas. Its fossils come from the Niobrara Formation. It was named by Carpenter et al. in 1995.
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 Nodosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: K. Carpenter, D. W. Dilkes, and D. B. Weishampel. 1995. The dinosaurs of the Niobrara Chalk Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Kansas). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(2):275-297