Stegopelta landerensis Stegopelta
"roofed shield"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Stegopelta 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (104.5–97 Mya)
- Place
- Wyoming, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
Stegopelta (meaning “roofed shield”) is a genus of struthiosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur based on a partial skeleton from the Cretaceous (latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian) Belle Fourche Member of the Frontier Formation of Fremont County, Wyoming, USA.
What we know
- Named by Williston, 1905.
- Fossils found in Wyoming, USA.