Glyptodontopelta
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Glyptodontopelta 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (69–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mexico · New Mexico, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Nodosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Ankylosaurs without the tail club.
Glyptodontopelta (meaning “Glyptodon shield”) is a monospecific genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from New Mexico that lived during the Late Cretaceous (lower to upper Maastrichtian, 69 to 66 Ma) in what is now the Naashoibito member of the Ojo Alamo Formation. The type and only species, Glyptodontopelta mimus, is known from numerous specimens that consist of osteoderms, a dentary, supraorbital and bone fragments. It was named in 2000 by Tracy Ford. Edmontonia australis is a junior synonym of Glyptodontopelta.
What we know
- Named by Ford, 2000.
- Fossils found in Mexico and New Mexico, USA.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Glyptodontopelta — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.