Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Dyoplosaurus
"double armored lizard"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Parks 1924
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Dyoplosaurus
What it was like
Dyoplosaurus was an ankylosaur, a low, armored plant eater with a club on its tail. Its skeleton includes the tail club and parts of the armor, and it was close to Euoplocephalus.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Alberta, Canada. It comes from the Dinosaur Park Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus, the horned Styracosaurus and the crested duckbill Parasaurolophus.
How it was found
Parks named Dyoplosaurus in 1924. For many years it was folded into Euoplocephalus, but it was later found to be different.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: W. A. Parks. 1924. Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus, a new genus and species of armoured dinosaur; and notes on a skeleton of Prosaurolophus maximus. University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series 18:1-35