Antarctopelta

What it was like

Antarctopelta was an armored plant eater about 4 meters (13 feet) long. It walked on four legs and carried bony plates in its skin, like other ankylosaurs. It is now placed in a small group of southern ankylosaurs that includes Stegouros and Kunbarrasaurus.

Its world

It lived about 84 to 72 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, on land that is now part of Antarctica. The continent was much warmer then and had forests. Its bones come from the Snow Hill Island Formation, where Trinisaura, Morrosaurus and Imperobator have also been found.

How it was found

Its single skeleton was the first dinosaur found in Antarctica, though Salgado and Gasparini did not name it until 2006.