Peloroplites
Field photograph to come
Peloroplites
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- Lived
- 121 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Carpenter et al. 2008
Field notes
About Peloroplites
Peloroplites was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 101 million years ago. It belongs to the family Nodosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Peloroplites, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Cedar Mountain Formation. It was named by Carpenter et al. in 2008.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Nodosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: K. Carpenter, J. Bartlett, and J. Bird, R. Barrick. 2008. Ankylosaurs from the Price River Quarries, Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous), east-central Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1089-1101