Sauroplites

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Sauroplites
Temporal occurrence
Lower Cretaceous
130 to 110 million years
Locations
Systematics
Dinosaur (dinosauria)
Pelvic dinosaur (Ornithischia)
Thyreophora
Eurypoda
Ankylosaurs (ankylosauria)
Sauroplites
Scientific name
Sauroplites
Bohlin , 1953
Art
  • Sauroplites scutiger Bohlin, 1953

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.

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