Panoplosaurus
Field photograph to come
Panoplosaurus
DV-0105 · type species Panoplosaurus mirus
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 7 m (23 ft)
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- Canada and United States
- Named by
- Lambe 1919
Field notes
About Panoplosaurus
Panoplosaurus was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Nodosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 11 finds of Panoplosaurus, from Alberta, Montana and Saskatchewan. Its fossils come from rocks including the Dinosaur Park Formation, the Two Medicine Formation and the Aguja Formation. It was named by Lambe in 1919.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Panoplosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Nodosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. M. Lambe. 1919. Description of a new genus and species (Panoplosaurus mirus) of an armoured dinosaur from the Belly River Beds of Alberta. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 13:39-50