Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Acantholipan
"thorn without fat"
Type species Acantholipan gonzalezi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Rivera-Sylva et al. 2018
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Acantholipan
What it was like
Acantholipan was a nodosaur, an armored plant eater without a tail club. It is known from a few bones and armor pieces.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mexico. Its fossils come from rocks laid down in the sea.
How it was found
Rivera-Sylva and colleagues named Acantholipan in 2018. The type species is Acantholipan gonzalezi. It is the first nodosaur named from Mexico.
Close relatives
Other members of Nodosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. E. Rivera-Sylva, E. Frey, and W. Stinnesbeck, G. Carbot-Chanona, I. E. Sanchez-Uribe, J. R. Guzman-Gutierrez. 2018. Paleodiversity of Late Cretaceous Ankylosauria from Mexico and their phylogenetic significance. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 137(1):83-93