Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Zaraapelta
Type species Zaraapelta nomadis
- Lived
- 101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Arbour et al. 2014
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Zaraapelta
What it was like
Zaraapelta was an ankylosaur, a low, armored plant eater known from a skull. The skull was covered in large, rough bony bumps, and it had horn-like spikes at the back.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mongolia. It was a relative of Tarchia.
How it was found
Arbour and colleagues named Zaraapelta in 2014. The type species is Zaraapelta nomadis.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: V. M. Arbour, P. J. Currie, and D. Badamgarav. 2014. The ankylosaurid dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172(3):631-652