Polacanthus
Field photograph to come
Polacanthus
DV-0023
- Lived
- 137 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 5 m (16 ft)
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- United Kingdom and Spain
- Named by
- Fox 1866
Field notes
About Polacanthus
Polacanthus was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 113 million years ago. It belongs to the family Nodosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 13 finds of Polacanthus, from United Kingdom and Spain. Its fossils come from rocks including the Wessex Formation, the Arcillas de Morella Formation and the Ferruginous Sands Formation. It was named by Fox in 1866.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
125 million years ago
To scale
How big was Polacanthus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Nodosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: W. Fox. 1866. On a new Wealden saurian named Polacanthus. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Birmingham 1865:56