Dyoplosaurus Parks 1924 (ankylosaurid)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae

Alternative spelling: Dioplosaurus

Full reference: W. A. Parks. 1924. Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus, a new genus and species of armoured dinosaur; and notes on a skeleton of Prosaurolophus maximus. University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series 18:1-35

Parent taxon: Euoplocephalini according to P. Penkalski 2018

See also Arbour et al. 2009, Arbour et al. 2014, Arbour and Currie 2013, Arbour et al. 2014, Arbour and Currie 2016, Bonaparte 1978, Carpenter 2001, Coombs 1978, Coombs 1978, Coombs 1986, Dodson 1983, Ford 2000, Gilmore 1933, Han et al. 2014, Hay 1930, Huene 1927, Kuhn 1964, Maleev 1954, Maleev 1956, Maryanska 1970, Nopcsa 1928, Nopcsa 1928, Nopcsa 1929, Parks 1935, Parsch 1963, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Rozhdestvensky 1977, Russell 1930, Ryan and Evans 2005, Simmons 1965, Swinton 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Tumanova 1987, Vickaryous et al. 2004 and Young 1935

Sister taxa: Anodontosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Platypelta, Scolosaurus

Subtaxa: Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at RTMP Quarry 2, Happy Jack Ferry (Cretaceous of Alberta)

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