Anoplosaurus Anoplosaurus

"unarmored or unarmed lizard"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Anoplosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (100 Mya)
Place
United Kingdom
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Nodosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria

Anoplosaurus (meaning “unarmored or unarmed lizard”) is an extinct genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (late Albian age) Cambridge Greensand of Cambridgeshire, England. It has in the past been classified with either the armored dinosaurs or the ornithopods, but current thought has been in agreement with the “armored dinosaur” interpretation, placing it in the Ankylosauria.

What we know

  • Named by Seeley, 1879.
  • Fossils found in United Kingdom.