Acantholipan
Acantholipan was a plant-eating dinosaur covered in bony armor and spikes. It lived in what is now Mexico during the Late Cretaceous period. This dinosaur is the first ankylosaur ever named from Mexico!1
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Acantholipan was named in 2018, making it a relatively new dinosaur discovery.1
Its fossils were found in a marine layer of the Pen Formation, meaning it may have lived near a sea coast.1
The only known skeleton is partial and lacks a skull, but includes a spike-like bone from its back.1
Acantholipan belonged to the nodosaur family, a group of armored dinosaurs with spikes along their bodies.1
Its closest relative is thought to be Nodosaurus, another armored dinosaur from North America.1
The name Acantholipan combines Greek for 'spine' and the Spanish name for the Lipan Apache people.1

Mees gevraagde vrae oor Acantholipan
?What did Acantholipan eat?
It was an herbivore, meaning it ate plants. Scientists know this because it belonged to the nodosaurid group of dinosaurs, which were all plant-eaters.13
?How big was Acantholipan?
Scientists don't know its exact size because only a partial skeleton has been found. It was an armored dinosaur, but no length or weight estimates have been published yet.1
Vir dino-kenners
- Wetenskaplike naam
- Acantholipan
- Benoem deur
- Rivera-Sylva et al. 20183
- Groep
- Gepantserde dino's
- Familie / klade
- Nodosauridae3
- Klassifikasie
- Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Nodosauridae > Thyreophora3
- Ouderdom van die rotse
- 84 tot 72 miljoen jaar (Campanian)3
- Rotsformasies
- Pen3
- Lande
- Meksiko3
- Fossielrekords
- 1 in The Paleobiology Database3
- Ontdekking
- Acantholipan was named in 2018 by Rivera-Sylva and colleagues. The fossils were found at Los Primos near San Miguel in Coahuila, Mexico, and were first reported in 2011.1
Waar die feite vandaan kom
- Acantholipan (en.wikipedia.org)
- Acantholipan gonzalezi | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Acantholipan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.
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