Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Ahshislepelta
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Burns and Sullivan 2011
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Ahshislepelta
What it was like
Ahshislepelta was an ankylosaur, a low, armored plant eater. It is known from part of the skeleton and some armor, so its looks are uncertain.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now New Mexico. It comes from the Kirtland Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaur Bistahieversor, the horned Pentaceratops and the crested duckbill Parasaurolophus.
How it was found
Burns and Sullivan named Ahshislepelta in 2011. The name comes from the dry wash where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. E. Burns and R. M. Sullivan. 2011. A new ankylosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, with comments on the diversity of ankylosaurids in New Mexico. Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:169-178