Ziapelta sanjuanensis Arbour et al. 2014 (ankylosaurid)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae

Full reference: V. M. Arbour, M. E. Burns, R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, A. K. Cantrell, J. Fry, and T. L. Suazo. 2014. A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Kirtlandian) of New Mexico with implications for ankylosaurid diversity in the Upper Cretaceous of western North America. PLoS ONE 9(9):e108804:1-14

Belongs to Ziapelta according to V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie 2016

See also Arbour et al. 2014, Arbour and Mallon 2017, Burns and Lucas 2015, Jasinski 2015 and Penkalski 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMMNH P-64484, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is NMMNH L-8514, Hunter Wash, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at NMMNH L-8514, Hunter Wash

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