Shamosaurus

DV-0288 · type species Shamosaurus scutatus

Lived: 121 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
Found in: Mongolia
Named by: Tumanova 1983

Field notes

About Shamosaurus

Shamosaurus was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 101 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ankylosauridae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Shamosaurus, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Dzunbain Formation. It was named by Tumanova in 1983.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

110 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Ankylosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. A. Tumanova. 1983. Pervyy ankilozavr iz nizhnego mela Mongolii [The first ankylosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia]. In L. P. Tatarinov, R. Barsbold, E. Vorobyeva, B. Luvsandanzan, B. A. Trofimov, Yu. A. Reshetov, & M. A. Shishkin (eds.), Iskopayemyye reptilii mongolii [Fossil Reptiles of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 24:110-118