Acantholipan

genus of thyreophorans

Acantholipan was a large, armored, quadrupedal (it walked on four legs), tank-like dinosaur from Mexico.[1]

Acantholipan
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 83.6 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Taxonomy

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It includes one species, Acantholipan gonzalezi. The fossils were found in Coahuila, Mexico.[2][3]

References

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  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

Other websites

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  Media related to Acantholipan at Wikimedia Commons
  Data related to Acantholipan at Wikispecies