Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Cedarpelta
"Cedar shield"
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Carpenter et al. 2001
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Cedarpelta
What it was like
Cedarpelta was a large, early ankylosaur, an armored plant eater. No tail club is known for it, and the plates on its skull were not fused as tightly.
It is known from bones of several animals, including parts of the skull.
Its world
It lived in the Cretaceous in what is now Utah, in the United States. Its bones come from the Cedar Mountain Formation.
How it was found
Carpenter and colleagues named Cedarpelta in 2001. Its bones were found jumbled together in a single quarry, where the skull bones had come apart before they became fossils.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: K. Carpenter, J. I. Kirkland, and D. L. Burge, J. Bird. 2001. Disarticulated skull of a new primitive ankylosaurid from the Lower Cretaceous of eastern Utah. The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington