Genre
Valide Éteint

Euoplocephalus

Lambe 1910
Étymologie Tête bien protégée

Euoplocephalus est un dinosaure ornithischien herbivore qui a vécu au cours du Crétacé supérieur, il y a entre 76,4 et 75,6 millions d’années.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
18
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Euoplocephalus
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TMP 1991.127.1, referred Euoplocephalus tutus skull in dorsal and left lateral views, with interpretive dorsal view diagram. © Victoria M. Arbour, Philip J. Currie · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia

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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Ornithischia Clade non classé
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Parapredentata Clade non classé
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Saphornithischia Clade non classé
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Prionodontia Clade non classé
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Genasauria Clade non classé
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Thyreophora Clade non classé
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamille
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Eurypoda Clade non classé
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Ankylosauria Clade non classé
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Euankylosauria Clade non classé
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Ankylosauridae Famille
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Ankylosaurinae Sous-famille
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Euoplocephalini Tribu
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Euoplocephalus Genre
Mesures
Longueur
5,5 m ⓘ
5,6 m ⓘ
Euoplocephalus tutus 
Masse
2 500 kg ⓘ
2 000 kg ⓘ
Euoplocephalus tutus 
Sites de découverte 18 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇨🇦 Canada
11
🇺🇸 États-Unis
6
🇨🇳 Chine
1
Formations géologiques
Bearpaw Shale
1
Subashi
1
Oldman
1
St. Mary River
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
2
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
16
Espèces (1)
Euoplocephalus tutus 84 Ma
Synonymes (1)
Stereocephalus replaced by Euoplocephalus
Images 2
Bibliographie
Description originale
L. M. Lambe. 1910. Note on the parietal crest of Centrosaurus apertus and a proposed new generic name for Stereocephalus tutus. The Ottawa Naturalist 24:149-151
Bibliographie (11)
P. Penkalski. 2018. Revised systematics of the armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus and its allies. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 287(3):261-306 DOI ↗
T. Miyashita, V. M. Arbour, and L. M. Witmer, P. J. Currie. 2011. The internal cranial morphology of an armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus corroborated by X-ray computed tomographic reconstruction. Journal of Anatomy 219:661-675 DOI ↗
M. T. Carrano. 2005. Fossil Vertebrate Collections, University of California Museum of Paleontology
P. J. Currie. 2005. History of research. Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
W. P. Coombs. 1995. Ankylosaurian tail clubs of middle Campanian to early Maastrichtian age from western North America, with description of a tiny club from Alberta and discussion of tail orientation and tail club function. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 32:902-912 DOI ↗
S. D. Sampson. 1995. Two new horned dinosaurs from the upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana; with a phylogenetic analysis of the Centrosaurinae (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(5):743-760 DOI ↗
A. R. Fiorillo. 1989. The vertebrate fauna from the Judith River Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Wheatland and Golden Valley counties, Montana. Mosasaur 4:127-142
P. M. Galton and H.-D. Sues. 1983. New data on pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from North America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 20(3):462-472 DOI ↗
R.-j. Zhai, J.-j. Zheng, and Y.-s. Tong. 1978. [Stratigraphy of the mammal-bearing Tertiary of the Turfan Basin, Sinkiang]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang. III. Permian and Triassic Vertebrate Fossils of Dzungaria Basin and Tertiary Stratigraphy and Mammalian Fossils of Turfan Basin 13:68-81
C. W. Gilmore. 1923. A new species of Corythosaurus with notes on other Belly River Dinosauria. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 37:46-52 DOI ↗
L. M. Lambe. 1902. New genera and species from the Belly River Series (mid-Cretaceous). Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3(2):25-81