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Hoplitosaurus

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy

Hoplitosaurus was named by Lucas (1902). It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

It was synonymized subjectively with Polacanthus by Pereda-Suberbiola (1993), Pereda-Suberbiola (1994) and Knoll et al. (1998).

It was assigned to Stegosauridae by von Zittel (1911); to Acanthopholidae by Nopcsa (1923) and Huene (1927); to Ankylosaurinae by Nopcsa (1929); to Scelidosauridae by Lucas (1902), Gilmore (1914) and Hay (1930); to Ankylosauridae by Huene (1909), Nopcsa (1928) and Maleev (1956); to Ankylosauria by Vickaryous et al. (2004); to Polacanthidae by Ford (2000), Carpenter (2001) and Kilbourne and Carpenter (2005); to Polacanthinae by Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Blows (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Kirkland and Loewen (2011) and Kirkland et al. (2013); and to Nodosauridae by Hennig (1915), Lull (1921), Nopcsa (1928), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Bodily (1970), Coombs (1978), Madsen and Miller (1979), Galton (1980), Galton (1983), Molnar (1984), Russell (1984), Tumanova (1987), Carroll (1988), Coombs and Deméré (1996), Han et al. (2014) and Yang et al. (2017).

Species

H. marshi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1902	Hoplitosaurus Lucas p. 435
1909	Hoplitosaurus Huene p. 17
1911	Hoplitosaurus von Zittel p. 294
1914	Hoplitosaurus Gilmore p. 114
1915	Hoplitosaurus Hennig p. 13
1921	Hoplitosaurus Lull p. 123
1923	Hoplitosaurus Nopcsa p. 198
1927	Hoplitosaurus Huene p. 261
1928	Hoplitosaurus Nopcsa p. 73
1929	Hoplitosaurus Nopcsa p. 70
1930	Hoplitosaurus Hay p. 232
1956	Hoplitosaurus Maleev
1956	Hoplitosaurus Romer p. 635
1964	Hoplitosaurus Kuhn p. 47
1964	Hoplitosaurus Tatarinov p. 577
1966	Hoplitosaurus Romer p. 370
1970	Hoplitosaurus Bodily p. 41
1978	Hoplitosaurus Coombs p. 144
1979	Hoplitosaurus Madsen and Miller p. 5
1980	Hoplitosaurus Galton p. 829
1983	Hoplitosaurus Galton p. 10
1984	Hoplitosaurus Molnar p. 154
1984	Hoplitosaurus Russell p. 23
1987	Hoplitosaurus Tumanova p. 14
1988	Hoplitosaurus Carroll
1996	Hoplitosaurus Coombs, Jr. and Deméré p. 319
1998	Hoplitosaurus Carpenter and Kirkland p. 266
2000	Hoplitosaurus Ford p. 174
2001	Hoplitosaurus Blows p. 376
2001	Hoplitosaurus Carpenter p. 457
2001	Hoplitosaurus Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 201
2004	Hoplitosaurus Vickaryous et al. p. 47
2005	Hoplitosaurus Kilbourne and Carpenter p. 156
2011	Hoplitosaurus Kirkland and Loewen p. 5
2013	Hoplitosaurus Kirkland et al. p. 5
2014	Hoplitosaurus Han et al. p. 14 fig. 11
2017	Hoplitosaurus Yang et al. p. 786 fig. 5

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Genasauria
—	Thyreophora	()
—	Ankylosauria	()
family	Nodosauridae
genus	Hoplitosaurus

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.

G. †Hoplitosaurus Lucas 1902

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†Hoplitosaurus marshi Lucas 1901

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available