Acantholipan
| Acantholipan Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Suborder: | †Ankylosauria |
| Family: | †Nodosauridae |
| Genus: | †Acantholipan Rivera-Sylva et al, 2018 |
| Type species | |
| †Acantholipan gonzalezi Rivera-Sylva et al, 2018
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Acantholipan was a large, armored, quadrupedal (it walked on four legs), tank-like dinosaur from Mexico.[1]
Taxonomy[change | change source]
It includes one species, Acantholipan gonzalezi. The fossils were found in Coahuila, Mexico.[2][3]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 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[change | change source]
Media related to Acantholipan at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Acantholipan at Wikispecies
