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Stegopelta

Ate: PlantsArmoured dinosLate Cretaceous

Stegopelta belongs to the group: Armoured dinos. Its fossils come from rocks about 100 to 94 million years old.1

Lived
100 to 94 million years ago1
Late Cretaceous
Most fossils found in
USA1
Food
Plants1

When did it live?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid
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Scientific name
Stegopelta
Named by
Williston 19051
Group
Armoured dinos
Family / clade
Nodosauridae1
Classification
Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Nodosauridae > Thyreophora1
Age of the rocks
100 to 94 million years (Cenomanian)1
Rock formations
Frontier1
Countries
USA1
Fossil records
1 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

  1. Stegopelta in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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