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
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at RTMP Quarry 2, Happy Jack Ferry (Cretaceous of Alberta)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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