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 | |
Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Acantholipan |
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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-12. 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
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Data related to Acantholipan at Wikispecies