Animantarx anih-MANTⱭːRKS
"living citadel"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Animantarx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (104.46–98.37 Mya)
- Place
- North America
- Food
- Herbivore
Animantarx ( ; meaning ‘living citadel’) is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early and Late Cretaceous of western North America. Like other nodosaurs, it would have been a slow-moving quadrupedal herbivore covered in heavy armor scutes, but without a tail club. The skull measures approximately 25 cm (10 inches) in length, suggesting the animal as a whole was no more than 3 meters (10 feet) long.
What we know
- Named by Carpenter et al. 1999.
- Fossils found in North America.