Dracopelta
"dragon shield"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dracopelta 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (163–145 Mya)
- Place
- Portugal
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Dracopelta (meaning “dragon shield”) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic (uppermost lower Tithonian-upper Tithonian, 152.1-145.0 Ma) in what is now the Lourinhã Formation, Portugal. The type and only species is Dracopelta zbyszewskii, which is represented by a partial skeleton including unpublished material.
What we know
- Named by Galton, 1980.
- Fossils found in Portugal.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Dracopelta — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.