Platypelta
Field photograph to come
Platypelta
DV-1034 · type species Platypelta coombsi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Penkalski 2018
Field notes
About Platypelta
Platypelta was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ankylosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 6 finds of Platypelta, from Alberta. Its fossils come from rocks including the Dinosaur Park Formation and the Oldman Formation. It was named by Penkalski in 2018.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Penkalski. 2018. Revised systematics of the armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus and its allies. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 287(3):261-306