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Ankylosauridae

Syrmosaurus syrmo-SOR-us

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Syrmosaurus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ankylosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Syrmosaurus
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (143.1–72.2 Mya)
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ankylosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Club-tailed armored herbivores.

Syrmosaurus is a ankylosauridae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.

What we know

  • Originally named by Maleev 1952.