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PANOPLOSAURUS

a plant-eating nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America.
panaplosaurus skull
Pronunciation: pan-O-plo-SOR-us
Meaning: Fully armoured lizard
Author/s: Lambe (1919)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Alberta, Canada
Discovery Chart Position: #124

Panaplosaurus mirus

(Amazing fully-armoured lizard)Etymology
Panoplosaurus is derived from the Greek "panoplos" (completely armoured) and "sauros" (lizard), because of its generous covering of armour.
The species epithet, mirus, means "wonderful" or "amazing" in Latin.
Discovery
The first remains of Panoplosaurus were discovered at "Quarry 8" in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Little Sandhill Creek, Alberta, Canada, by Charles M. Sternberg during the Geological Survey vertebrate paleontological field party of 1917.
The holotype (CMN 2759) is a virtually complete skull and partial skeleton.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian
Age range: 80-73 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 7 meters
Est. max. hip height: 2 meters
Est. max. weight: 3 tons
Diet: Herbivore
Dinosauria
Ornithischia
Thyreophora
Ankylosauria
Nodosauridae
Panoplosaurus
mirus
References
• Lambe LM (1919) "Description of a new genus and species (Panoplosaurus mirus) of an armoured dinosaur from the Belly River Beds of Alberta". Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 3(13): 39-50.
• Sternberg CM (1921) "A supplementary study of Panoplosaurus mirus". Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 3(15): 93-102.
• Carpenter K (1990) "Ankylosaur systematics: example using Panaplosaurus and Edmontonia (Ankylosauria: Nodosauridae)" in "Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives".
• Vickaryous MK, Maryanska T and Weishampel DB (2004) "Ankylosauria". In Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Witmer LM and Ridgely RC (2008) "The Paranasal Air Sinuses of Predatory and Armored Dinosaurs (Archosauria: Theropoda and Ankylosauria) and Their Contribution to Cephalic Structure". The Anatomical Record, 291(11): 362-1388.
• Arbour VM and PJ Currie (2015) "Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 14(5): 385-444.
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