Name:
Acantholipan
(Spine of the Gray People).
Phonetic: Ah-kan-fo-li-pan.
Named By: H�ctor Eduardo Rivera-Sylva, Eberhard
Frey, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Gerardo Carbot-Chanona, Iv�n Erick
Sanchez-Uribe & Jos� Rub�n Guzm�n-Guti�rrez - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Nodosauridae.
Species: A. gonzalezi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Mexico.
Time period: Santonian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeletal
remains.
Acantholipan
is a genus of nodosaurid
dinosaur that lived in North America during
the late Cretaceous. Acantholipan is the first
dinosaur of its kind
discovered in Mexico.
Further reading
- Paleodiversity of Late Cretaceous Ankylosauria from Mexico and
their phylogenetic significance. - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology.
137 (1): 83–93. - H�ctor Eduardo Rivera-Sylva, Eberhard
Frey, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Gerardo Carbot-Chanona, Iv�n Erick
Sanchez-Uribe & Jos� Rub�n Guzm�n-Guti�rrez - 2018.
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