Genus
Valid Extinct

Bissektipelta

Parish and Barrett 2004

Bissektipelta is a genus of ankylosaurine thyreophoran dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. Bissektipelta is a monospecific genus, containing only the type species B. archibaldi.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Bissektipelta
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Reconstruction of Bissektipelta archibaldi an ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan © Atlantis536 · CC0 · Wikimedia
Bissektipelta
Bissektipelta
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Parapredentata Unranked clade
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Saphornithischia Unranked clade
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Prionodontia Unranked clade
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Genasauria Unranked clade
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Thyreophora Unranked clade
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
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Eurypoda Unranked clade
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Ankylosauria Unranked clade
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Euankylosauria Unranked clade
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Ankylosauridae Family
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Bissektipelta Genus
Measurements
Length
3,1 m ⓘ
Bissektipelta archibaldi
Mass
350 kg ⓘ
Bissektipelta archibaldi
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
1
Geological formations
Bissekty
1
Temporal distribution
Turonian (93.9–89.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Bissektipelta archibaldi 94 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
J. C. Parish and P. M. Barrett. 2004. A reappraisal of the ornithischian dinosaur Amtosaurus magnus Kurzanov and Tumanova 1978, with comments on the status of A. archibaldi Averianov 2002. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41:299-306 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
A. O. Averianov. 2002. An ankylosaurid (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) braincase from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. Bulletin de l'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 72:97-110