Reptilia - Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Full reference: M. E. Burns and R. M. Sullivan. 2011. A new ankylosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, with comments on the diversity of ankylosaurids in New Mexico. Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:169-178
Parent taxon: Ankylosauridae according to V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie 2016
See also Arbour et al. 2014, Burns and Sullivan 2011 and Jasinski 2015
Sister taxa: Aletopelta, Ankylosaurinae, Bissektipelta, Cedarpelta, Chuanqilong, Datai, Dyoplosaurus giganteus, Gobisaurus, Huaxiazhoulong, Liaoningosaurus, Maleevus, Minmi, Palaeoscincus asper, Polacanthinae, Shamosaurinae, Shamosaurus, Stegopeltinae, Syrmosaurinae
Subtaxa: Ahshislepelta minor
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at south side, Ah-shi-sle-pah Wash (SMP) (Cretaceous of New Mexico)
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