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dinosaurs with
armor in the form of bony osteoderms,
similar to turtles.
Ankylosaurs were
bulky quadrupeds, with short,
powerful limbs. They are
known to...
- This
timeline of
ankylosaur research is a
chronological listing of
events in the
history of
paleontology focused on the
ankylosaurs,
quadrupedal herbivorous...
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including several osteoderms. It was
historically known as the "Spearpoint
ankylosaur"
prior to its description. The
Vectipelta holotype specimens,
IWCMS 1996...
- and two
horns below these that
pointed backward and down.
Unlike other ankylosaurs, its
nostrils faced sideways rather than
towards the front. The front...
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parankylosaurian affinities for the taxon.
Patagopelta is a very
small ankylosaur,
comparable in size to the
dwarf nodosaurid Struthiosaurus,
about 2 m...
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Gargoyleosaurus (meaning "gargoyle lizard") is one of the
earliest ankylosaurs known from
reasonably complete fossil remains. The
holotype was discovered...
- Antarctica, and Australia. It is
thought the
group split from
other ankylosaurs during the mid-Jur****ic period,
despite this
being unpreserved in the...
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unexpectedly hit upon an
ankylosaurian tail club. An
almost complete ankylosaur skeleton proved to be present. As it had not been
eroded on the surface...
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Nodosauridae was
first informally defined by Paul
Sereno in 1998 as "all
ankylosaurs closer to
Panoplosaurus than to Ankylosaurus," a
definition followed...
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lightly built.
Ankylosaur material at the time was
typically referred to the
Scelidosauridae but
because this was the
first ankylosaur braincase to be...
