Acantholipan
Acantholipan was a large, armored, quadrupedal (it walked on four legs), tank-like dinosaur from Mexico.[1]
| Acantholipan Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Family: | Nodosauridae |
| Genus: | Acantholipan Rivera-Sylva et al, 2018 |
| Type species | |
| †Acantholipan gonzalezi Rivera-Sylva et al, 2018
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Taxonomy
It includes one species, Acantholipan gonzalezi. The fossils were found in Coahuila, Mexico.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva; Eberhard Frey; Wolfgang Stinnesbeck; Gerardo Carbot-Chanona; Iván E. Sanchez-Uribe; José Rubén Guzmán-Gutiérrez (2018). "Paleodiversity of Late Cretaceous Ankylosauria from Mexico and their phylogenetic significance". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. in press.
- ↑ Late cretaceous Nodosaurids. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
- ↑ Rivera-Sylva, H.E., Carpenter, K. & Aranda-Manteca, F.J. 2011, Late Cretaceous Nodosaurids (Ankylosauria: Ornithischia) from Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 28(3): 271–278
Other websites
Media related to Acantholipan at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Acantholipan at Wikispecies