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Ankylosauridae

Zaraapelta nomadis

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Zaraapelta 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 Zaraapelta
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ankylosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Club-tailed armored herbivores.

Zaraapelta is an extinct genus of herbivorous ankylosaurid thyreophoran dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. The type species is Zaraapelta nomadis, named and described by Arbour et al in 2014. Zaraapelta is known from a single skull from the Barun Goyot Formation. It was found to be closest to Tarchia in the phylogenetic analysis within its description.

What we know

  • Named by Arbour et al., 2014.
  • Fossils found in Mongolia.

What we guess

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