Peloroplites
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Peloroplites (meaning “monstrous heavy one”) is a monospecific genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from Utah that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to lower Turonian stage, 98.2 to 93 Ma) in what is now the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation. The type and only species, Peloroplites cedrimontanus, is known from a partial skull and postcranial skeleton. It was named in 2008 by Kenneth Carpenter and colleagues. Peloroplites was 6 metres (20 feet) long and weighed 2 tonnes (4,410 lbs), making it one of the largest known nodosaurids, and came from a time when ankylosaurids and nodosaurids were attaining large sizes.[1][2]
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Peloroplites | |
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Peloroplites skeletal reconstruction on display at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum, Price, Utah. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Polacanthinae |
Genus: | †Peloroplites Carpenter et al., 2008 |
Species: | †P. cedrimontanus |
Binomial name | |
†Peloroplites cedrimontanus Carpenter et al., 2008 | |
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