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Bissektipelta

Say it: biss-EK-ti-PEL-ta

Name means: “Bissekty shield”1

Ate: PlantsArmoured dinosLate Cretaceous

Bissektipelta was an armoured dinosaur that looked like a living tank. It had bony plates on its head and a strong sense of smell to find food and avoid danger.1

Lived

94 to 90 million years ago4

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Bissekty Formation, Uzbekistan1 2

Food

Plants1

Length

1 to 3 m2

estimate based on partial skull

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

as long as 1.5 bicycles in a rowas long as 17 bananas end to end

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Fun facts

Bissektipelta had a very large part of its brain devoted to smell, so it could sniff out food and predators easily.1

Its skull had a unique Y-shaped groove pattern on top, which helped scientists tell it apart from other ankylosaurs.1 3

Bissektipelta lived about 92 to 90 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.1 2

This dinosaur had a network of tiny blood vessels in its skull that helped keep its brain cool.1

Bissektipelta could hear low sounds, like deep rumbles, which might have helped it communicate with others.1

AI-made picture of Bissektipelta — An AI-made picture of how Bissektipelta might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

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Most asked questions about Bissektipelta

?How big was Bissektipelta?

Scientists do not know for sure, because only skulls and teeth have been found. It was an armoured dinosaur, but its exact size is unknown.1

?Where did Bissektipelta live?

It lived in what is now Uzbekistan, in Asia, during the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossils were found in the Bissekty Formation.1 4

?Was Bissektipelta a dinosaur?

Yes, Bissektipelta was a dinosaur. It was an ankylosaur, a type of armoured dinosaur that looked like a living tank.1

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Scientific name: Bissektipelta
Named by: Parish and Barrett 20044
Group: Armoured dinos
Family / clade: Ankylosauridae4
Classification: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Ankylosauridae > Thyreophora4
Age of the rocks: 94 to 90 million years (Turonian)4
Rock formations: Bissekty4
Countries: Uzbekistan4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: The first fossil, a well-preserved braincase, was found in 1998 by a joint team of scientists from Uzbekistan, Russia, Britain, America, and Canada. It was named Bissektipelta archibaldi in 2004 by Jolyon Parish and Paul Barrett.1 3
Still debated: Scientists are not sure if Bissektipelta was a plant-eater or an omnivore that also ate small animals or filtered food from water.1

Where the facts come from

Bissektipelta (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
A reappraisal of the ornithischian dinosaur Amtosaurus magnus Kurzanov and Tumanova 1978, with comments on the status of A. archibaldi Averianov 2002 (cdnsciencepub.com)
Bissektipelta in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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