Invictarx
"unconquerable fortress"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Invictarx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- 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 Ankylosaurs without the tail club.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Invictarx — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.