Cedarpelta

Cedarpelta is one of the few ankylosaurs whose skull bones are not completely fused together, which let scientists study each bone separately.2

One of its skulls was found disarticulated, meaning the bones were scattered, a first for an ankylosaur skull.2

Its skull was about 60 centimetres (24 inches) long, and it had 18 teeth in its upper jaw.2

Cedarpelta lived about 98 to 93 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period.2

The name Cedarpelta comes from the Cedar Mountain Formation and the Greek word 'pelte', meaning small shield.2

Fossils of Cedarpelta were found alongside those of a brachiosaurid, an iguanodontian, a turtle, a pterosaur, and another armoured dinosaur called Peloroplites.2