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Ankylosauridae

Shanxia tianzhenensis

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Shanxia 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 Shanxia
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (99–71 Mya)
Place
Mexico · China · New Mexico, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ankylosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Club-tailed armored herbivores.

Shanxia (named after the Shanxi Province) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Shanxi Province that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Campanian, ~99-71 Ma) in what is now the Huiquanpu Formation. Shanxia may possibly represent a junior synonym of Tianzhenosaurus, an ankylosaurine also known from the Huiquanpu Formation of China.

What we know

  • Named by Barrett et al., 1998.
  • Fossils found in Mexico and China.

What we guess

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