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Dongyangopelta yangyanensis

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy
Dongyangopelta yangyanensis was named by Chen et al. (2013). Its type specimen is DYM F0136, a set of postcrania (dorsosacral vertebrae, sacral vertebrae, dorsal ribs, partial right ilium, right femur, three pedal phalanges, osteoderms and ossified tendons), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pinglinggang Hill, Yangyan Village, which is in an Albian/Cenomanian lacustrine sandstone in the Chaochuan Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Dongyangopelta yangyanensis Chen et al. p. 660
2016Dongyangopelta yangyanensis Arbour and Currie p. 392
2016Dongyangopelta yangyanensis Borinder et al. p. 66
2018Dongyangopelta yangyanensis Xing et al. p. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Thyreophora()
—Ankylosauria()
familyNodosauridae
genusDongyangopelta
speciesyangyanensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Dongyangopelta yangyanensis Chen et al. 2013
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie 2016Differs from all other ankylosaurs in possessing the following combination of characters: pelvic shield formed of loosely spaced osteoderm rosettes, with the central osteoderm not completely ringed by smaller osteoderms.