Akainacephalus

Description
Source: Wikipédia
Akainacephalus (meaning "thorn head") is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from southern Utah that lived during the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian, 76.26 Ma) in what is now the Horse Mountain Gryposaur Quarry of the Kaiparowits Formation. The type and only species, Akainacephalus johnsoni, is known from the most complete ankylosaur specimen ever discovered from southern Laramidia, including a complete skull, tail club, a number of osteoderms, limb elements and part of its pelvis, among other remains. It was described in 2018 by Jelle P. Wiersma and Randall B. Irmis. It is closely related and shares similar cranial anatomy to Nodocephalosaurus.
Information(s)
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- Attibution: Wiersma and Irmis 201866889
- Statut: Valide
- Nom commun:
- Longueur (en m): 10 to < 100
- Largeur (en m): 1.0 to < 10
- Hauteur (en m): 1.0 to < 10
- Poids (en m): de à
- Environnement de découverte: terrestrial
- Mode de vie: terrestrial
- Mode de locomotion: actively mobile
- Vision: ?
- Alimentation: herbivore
- Mode de reprodution: oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile
- Classification: Ankylosaurini >> Ankylosaurinae >> Ankylosauridae >> Ankylosauria >> Thyreophora >> Genasauria >> Ornithischia >> Dinosauria
- Période: Campanian (de -83.60 Ma à -72.20 Ma)
- Espèce(s):
- Akainacephalus johnsoni (Valide)66889
- Specimen(s):
Pas de spécimen dans la base de donnée.
- Autre(s) Taxon(s) trouvés dans la litterature:
- Akainacephalus johnsoni
- Découverte(s): 1 occcurrences
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- Utah
- Kane
- Formation Kaiparowits
- Akainacephalus johnsoni: ? 66889
- Formation Kaiparowits
- Kane
- Utah
- Historique des modifications:
Pas de modification récente.
Publication(s)
La base comprend 1 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 3 J. P. Wiersma and R. B. Irmis. 2018. A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah, USA. PeerJ 6(e5016) (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5016)
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