Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Peloroplites
"monstrous heavy one"
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Carpenter et al. 2008
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Peloroplites
What it was like
Peloroplites was a large nodosaur, an armored plant eater with bony plates across its back but no tail club. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton, and was one of the biggest members of its family.
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 Peloroplites in 2008, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Nodosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: K. Carpenter, J. Bartlett, and J. Bird, R. Barrick. 2008. Ankylosaurs from the Price River Quarries, Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous), east-central Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1089-1101