Acantholipan

Acantholipan
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 83.6 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Clade: †Thyreophora
Suborder: †Ankylosauria
Family: †Nodosauridae
Genus: †Acantholipan
Rivera-Sylva et al, 2018
Type species
†Acantholipan gonzalezi
Rivera-Sylva et al, 2018

Acantholipan was a large, armored, quadrupedal (it walked on four legs), tank-like dinosaur from Mexico.

Taxonomy

It includes one species, Acantholipan gonzalezi. The fossils were found in Coahuila, Mexico.

References

  1. ↑ Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva; Eberhard Frey; Wolfgang Stinnesbeck; Gerardo Carbot-Chanona; Iván E. Sanchez-Uribe; José Rubén Guzmán-Gutiérrez (2018). "Paleodiversity of Late Cretaceous Ankylosauria from Mexico and their phylogenetic significance". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. in press.
  2. ↑ "Late cretaceous Nodosaurids" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  3. ↑ Rivera-Sylva, H.E., Carpenter, K. & Aranda-Manteca, F.J. 2011, Late Cretaceous Nodosaurids (Ankylosauria: Ornithischia) from Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 28(3): 271–278

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