Panoplosaurus
Panoplosaurus was an armored tank-like dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous, living about 76–73 million years ago.
| Panoplosaurus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
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| Genus: | Panoplosaurus Lambe, 1919
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Panoplosaurus was a herbivore (a plant-eater). It ate low-lying plants, like ferns and cycads. This nodosaurid ankylosaur (with no tail club) was about 23 ft (7 m) long and weighed about 3.5 tons. It had a bulky body, four short legs, a short neck, and a stiff tail.
Panoplosaurus Media
Outcrops of the Dinosaur Park Formation along the Red Deer River
Left side view of holotype on display at Canadian Museum of Nature
Skull of Panoplosaurus mirus CMN 2759 in dorsal, ventral, and anterior views
Osteoderms and arrangement of neck osteoderms of Panoplosaurus mirus
Skull of Edmontonia rugosidens in the RTMP, at times considered a species of Panoplosaurus
Mounted skeletons of Denversaurus and Tyrannosaurus, Houston Museum of Natural Science
Skulls of Panoplosaurus (left) and Euoplocephalus (right) and their respective sinuses
Map of North America and the Western Interior Seaway 75 mya
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