Biology:Polacanthoides

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Short description: Invalid genus of dinosaur


Polacanthoides
Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous, 140–135 Ma
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Thyreophora
Suborder: Ankylosauria
Family: Nodosauridae
Subfamily: Polacanthinae
Genus: Polacanthoides
Nopcsa, 1928
Type species
Polacanthoides ponderosus
Nopcsa, 1928

Polacanthoides (meaning Polacanthus like) as named as a genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from Europe.[1] It lived about 140 to 135 million years ago in what is now England . It was named by Nopsca in 1928. The type specimen is NHMUK 2584. It is a junior synonym of both Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus and was based on a chimera of skeletal elements.[2]

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References

  1. Nopcsa, F. (1928), "Palaeontological notes on reptiles." Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica, tomus, 1, -Pasc. 1, p. 1-84
  2. Raven, T.J.; Barrett, P.M.; Pond, S.B.; Maidment, S.C. (2020). "Osteology and Taxonomy of British Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–Aptian) Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40 (4). doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1826956. 


Wikidata ☰ Q5638133 entry