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Sauropelta

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

Taxonomy

Sauropelta was named by Ostrom (1970). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).

It was assigned to Acanthopholidae by Ostrom (1970); to Struthiosaurinae by Sereno (1986); to Nodosauroidea by Bakker (1988); to Sauropeltinae by Ford (2000); and to Nodosauridae by Coombs (1978), Coombs (1978), Coombs (1979), Galton (1980), Molnar (1980), Galton (1983), Russell (1984), Tumanova (1987), Carroll (1988), Weishampel et al. (1991), Gasparini et al. (1996), Coombs and Deméré (1996), Kirkland (1997), Dodson (1997), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (1997), Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Kirkland (1998), Carpenter et al. (1999), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Barrett (2001), Coria and Salgado (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Ford and Kirkland (2001), Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola (2003), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Lü et al. (2007), Carpenter et al. (2008), Burns (2008), Osi and Makádi (2009), Parsons and Parsons (2009), Kirkland et al. (2013), Han et al. (2014), Blows (2014), Arbour and Currie (2016) and Galton (2019).

Species

S. edwardsorum

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1970	Sauropelta Ostrom p. 103
1978	Sauropelta Coombs p. 144
1979	Sauropelta Coombs, Jr. p. 666
1980	Sauropelta Galton p. 827
1980	Sauropelta Molnar p. 137
1983	Sauropelta Galton p. 6
1984	Sauropelta Russell p. 23
1986	Sauropelta Sereno
1987	Sauropelta Tumanova p. 14
1988	Sauropelta Bakker p. 21 fig. 10
1988	Sauropelta Carroll
1991	Sauropelta Weishampel et al. p. 208
1996	Sauropelta Coombs, Jr. and Deméré p. 319
1996	Sauropelta Gasparini et al. p. 584
1997	Sauropelta Dodson p. 12
1997	Sauropelta Kirkland p. 98
1997	Sauropelta Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 213
1998	Sauropelta Carpenter and Kirkland p. 255
1998	Sauropelta Kirkland p. 273 fig. 3
1999	Sauropelta Carpenter et al. p. 247
2000	Sauropelta Ford p. 175
2001	Sauropelta Barrett p. 41
2001	Sauropelta Carpenter p. 457
2001	Sauropelta Coria and Salgado p. 163
2001	Sauropelta Ford and Kirkland p. 256
2001	Sauropelta Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 199
2001	Sauropelta Vickaryous et al. p. 1774
2003	Sauropelta Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola p. 161
2004	Sauropelta Vickaryous et al. p. 365
2007	Sauropelta Lü et al. p. 889 fig. 1
2008	Sauropelta Burns p. 1109
2008	Sauropelta Carpenter et al. p. 1098
2009	Sauropelta Osi and Makádi p. 239 fig. 10
2009	Sauropelta Parsons and Parsons p. 736 fig. 18
2013	Sauropelta Kirkland et al. p. 7
2014	Sauropelta Blows p. 59 fig. 3
2014	Sauropelta Han et al. p. 14 fig. 11
2016	Sauropelta Arbour and Currie p. 433 fig. 11
2019	Sauropelta Galton p. 213 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	Sauropelta

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. †Sauropelta Ostrom 1970

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†Sauropelta edwardsorum Ostrom 1970

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available