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Nodosauridae

Acantholipan gonzalezi

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Acantholipan 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ankylosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Acantholipan
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (83.6 Mya)
Place
Mexico
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Nodosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Ankylosaurs without the tail club.

Acantholipan is a genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur from Mexico from the early Santonian age of the Late Cretaceous. It includes one species, Acantholipan gonzalezi.

What we know

  • Named by Rivera-Sylva et al., 2018.
  • Fossils found in Mexico.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Acantholipan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.