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Nodosauridae

Stegopelta landerensis

"roofed shield"

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Stegopelta 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 Stegopelta
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (104.5–97 Mya)
Place
Wyoming, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Nodosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Ankylosaurs without the tail club.

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.

What we guess

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