Acantholipan

genus of thyreophorans

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

Acantholipan
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 83.6 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Unrecognized taxon (fix): no one cares
Type species
Acantholipan gonzalezi
Rivera-Sylva et al, 2018

Taxonomy change

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

References change

  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 change

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