Anoplosaurus Seeley 1879 (ankylosaur)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Nodosauridae

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1879. On the Dinosauria of the Cambridge Greensand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35:591-636

Parent taxon: Nodosauridae according to J. Yang et al. 2017

See also Blows 2014, Blows and Honeysett 2014, Brinkmann 1988, Buffetaut et al. 1981, Carpenter 2001, Carroll 1988, Ford 2000, Hennig 1915, Huene 1909, Huene 1927, Kirkland et al. 2013, Kuhn 1964, Naish and Martill 2007, Naish and Martill 2008, Nopcsa 1901, Nopcsa 1902, Nopcsa 1915, Norman and Weishampel 1990, Pereda Suberbiola and Barrett 1999, Pereda Suberbiola and Galton 2001, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Sauvage 1882, Sauvage 1882, Seeley 1879, Stromer 1934, Swinton 1936, Tatarinov 1964, Thulborn 1974, Vickaryous et al. 2004, von Zittel 1911, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Acantholipan, Animantarx, Antarctopelta, Borealopelta, Dongyangopelta, Edmontonia, Edmontoniinae, Gargoyleosaurus, Gastonia, Glyptodontopelta, Hoplitosaurus, Hungarosaurus, Hylaeosaurus, Invictarx, Mymoorapelta, Niobrarasaurus, Nodosaurinae, Nodosaurus, Panoplosaurinae, Panoplosaurus, Patagopelta, Pawpawsaurus, Peloroplites, Polacanthus, Propanoplosaurus, Sauropelta, Sauropeltinae, Sauroplites, Silvisaurus, Stegopelta, Struthiosaurinae, Struthiosaurus, Taohelong, Tatankacephalus, Texasetes, Acanthopholinae, Hoplosaurus, Hylosaurus

Subtaxa: Anoplosaurus curtonotus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Reach, Cambridge (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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