Niobrarasaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0384Niobrara Fm., Kansas

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

2 finds

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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