Sauroplites
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Lower Cretaceous | ||||||||||||
130 to 110 million years | ||||||||||||
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Sauroplites | ||||||||||||
Bohlin , 1953 | ||||||||||||
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Sauroplites is a little-known genus of the bird pelvic dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the group of the Ankylosauria .
From sauroplites only parts of are far basin and individual ribs and bone plates have been found. Based on the anatomy of the fossils , one concludes that this dinosaur belonged to the Ankylosauria, the sparse findings do not allow a more precise classification, so that Sauroplites is considered a nomen dubium .
The remains were found in the Chinese province of Gansu and first described in 1953 by the Swedish paleontologist Birger Bohlin . The name is derived from the Greek sauros (= "lizard") and hoplite (a type of soldier). The finds are dated in the early Lower Cretaceous to an age of 130 to 110 million years.
literature
- Matthew K. Vickaryous, Teresa Maryańska , David B. Weishampel : Ankylosauria. In: David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson , Halszka Osmólska (eds.): The Dinosauria . 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 , pp. 363-392.