Euoplocephalus
| Euoplocephalus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
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| Genus: | Euoplocephalus Lambe, 1910
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Euplocephalus (meaning "well-armored head") was a large armored dinosaur, measuring about 20 feet (6 m) long; it weighed about 2 tons. Its wide head had a horny, toothless beak, small, peg-like cheek teeth, bony horns, and a small brain. Among its contemporaries were the large meat-eating Tyrannosaurus and Deinonychus.
Fossils from more than 40 individuals have been discovered in Alberta, Canada and Montana in the United States, making Euoplocephalus the best known ankylosaurid.[1] This includes 15 skulls, teeth, and a few almost-complete skeletons, found with the armor still attached.[2] Individual armor plates are the most commonly found element from them.
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- ↑ Arbour V.M.; Currie P.J. 2013. Euoplocephalus tutus and the diversity of Ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and Montana, USA. PLOS ONE. 8 (5): e62421. [1]
- ↑ Vickaryous M.K. et al. 2004. "Ankylosauria" In D.B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmolska (eds) The Dinosauria. 2nd ed, University of California Press, Berkeley. 363-392