Invictarx Invictarx

"unconquerable fortress"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Invictarx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (78.5 Mya)
Place
Mexico · New Mexico, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Nodosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria

Invictarx (meaning “unconquerable fortress”) is a monospecific genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from New Mexico that lived during the Late Cretaceous (lower Campanian, 78.5 Ma) in what is now the upper Allison Member of the Menefee Formation. The type and only species, Invictarx zephyri, is known from three isolated, incomplete postcranial skeletons. It was named in 2018 by Andrew T. McDonald and Douglas G. Wolfe. Invictarx shares similarities with Glyptodontopelta from the Naashoibito member of the Ojo Alamo Formation, New Mexico.

What we know

  • Named by McDonald and Wolfe, 2018.
  • Fossils found in Mexico and New Mexico, USA.