Antarctopelta oliveroi Salgado and Gasparini 2006 (ankylosaur)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: L. Salgado and Z. Gasparini. 2006. Reappraisal of an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island (Antarctica). Geodiversitas 28(1):119-135

Belongs to Antarctopelta according to S. Soto-Acuña et al. 2024

See also Arbour and Currie 2016, Coria et al. 2008, Coria et al. 2013, Coria et al. 2011, Otero and Reguero 2013, Rozadilla et al. 2016, Salgado and Gasparini 2006 and Salisbury et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MLP 86-X-28-1, a set of postcrania (cranial fragments, left dentary fragment with in situ tooth, three isolated teeth, two cervical vertebrae and latex cast prepared from natural mould of three ar). Its type locality is DG6-1, Santa Marta Cove, which is in a Campanian marginal marine sandstone/sandstone in the Snow Hill Island Formation of Antarctica.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at DG6-1, Santa Marta Cove

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