Genus

Valid Extinct

Crichtonpelta

Arbour and Currie 2016

Crichtonpelta is a genus of extinct herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of China.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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Simple drawing of Ankylosaurus magniventris, a North American Cretaceous ankylosaurid. Based on skeletal reconstruction in Paul 2010. © Emily Willoughby (e.deinonychus@gmail.com, http://emilywilloughby.com) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia

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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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Ankylosaurinae Subfamily

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Crichtonpelta Genus

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇳 China

Geological formations

Sunjiawan

Temporal distribution

Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)

Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)

Species (1)

Crichtonpelta benxiensis 106 Ma

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2016. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5):385-444 DOI ↗

Bibliography (2)

J. Yang, H. You, and L. Xie, H. Zhou. 2017. A new specimen of Crichtonpelta benxiensis (Dinosauria: Ankylosaurinae) from the mid-Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 91(3):781-790 DOI ↗

J. Lü, Q. Ji, and Y. Gao, Z. Li. 2007. A new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur Crichtonsaurus (Ankylosauridae: Ankylosauria) from the Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 81(6):883-897