Dyoplosaurus
"double-armoured lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dyoplosaurus 4.5 m (14.8 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 4.5 m (14.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (76.5 Mya)
- Place
- Alberta, Canada
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Ankylosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Club-tailed armored herbivores.
Dyoplosaurus (meaning “double-armoured lizard”) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from Alberta that lived during the Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian, ~76.5–75 Ma) in what is now the Dinosaur Park Formation. Dyoplosaurus represents a close relative of Scolosaurus and Anodontosaurus, two ankylosaurids known from the Horseshoe Canyon and Dinosaur Park Formation.
What we know
- Named by Parks, 1924.
- Body length estimated at about 4.5 m.
- Fossils found in Alberta, Canada.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Dyoplosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.