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Ankylosauridae

Shamosaurus scutatus

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Shamosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ankylosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Shamosaurus
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ankylosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Club-tailed armored herbivores.

Shamosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from Early Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian stage) deposits of Höövör, Mongolia.

What we know

  • Named by Tumanova, 1983.
  • Fossils found in Mongolia.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Shamosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.