Genre
Valide Éteint

Pinacosaurus

Gilmore 1933

Pinacosaurus est un genre fossile de dinosaures ornithischiens herbivores de la famille des Ankylosauridae qui vivait au Crétacé dans ce qui est aujourd'hui la Mongolie et la Chine.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
24
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
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Mounted skeleton of Pinacosaurus specimen MPC 100/1305 with skull cast of Saichania. Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs. © Thomas Vandenberghe from Leuven, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Ornithischia Clade non classé
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Parapredentata Clade non classé
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Saphornithischia Clade non classé
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Prionodontia Clade non classé
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Genasauria Clade non classé
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Thyreophora Clade non classé
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamille
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Eurypoda Clade non classé
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Ankylosauria Clade non classé
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Euankylosauria Clade non classé
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Ankylosauridae Famille
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Ankylosaurinae Sous-famille
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Pinacosaurus Genre
Mesures
Longueur
5 m ⓘ
3 m ⓘ
Pinacosaurus mephistocephalus — min connu
4,95 m ⓘ
Pinacosaurus grangeri — max connu
Masse
1 300 kg ⓘ
Pinacosaurus grangeri — min connu
380 kg ⓘ
Pinacosaurus mephistocephalus — max connu
Sites de découverte 24 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇲🇳 Mongolie
16
🇨🇳 Chine
8
Formations géologiques
Djadokhta
12
Bayan Mandahu
5
Baruungoyot
2
Öösh
1
Jiangjunding
1
Alagteeg
1
Wulansuhai
1
Distribution temporelle
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
22
Coniacien (89.8–85.7 Ma)
1
Barrémien (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Espèces (5)
Pinacosaurus grangeri 90 Ma
Pinacosaurus hilwitnorum 84 Ma
Pinacosaurus mephistocephalus
Pinacosaurus ninghsiensis subjective synonym of Pinacosaurus grangeri 90 Ma
Syrmosaurus viminocaudus subjective synonym of Pinacosaurus grangeri 90 Ma
Synonymes (1)
Syrmosaurus subjective synonym of Pinacosaurus
Images 11
Bibliographie
Description originale
C. W. Gilmore. 1933. Two new dinosaurian reptiles from Mongolia with notes on some fragmentary specimens. American Museum Novitates 679:1-20
Bibliographie (18)
P. Penkalski. 2026. The morphology and systematics of Pinacosaurus. Historical Biology DOI ↗
G. Botfalvai, E. Prondvai, and A. Ösi. 2021. Living alone or moving in herds? A holistic approach highlights complexity in the social lifestyle of Cretaceous ankylosaurs. Cretaceous Research 118:104633 DOI ↗
S. Ji, L. Zhang, and L. Lu, J. Hao. 2017. The first discovery of the Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid fauna from Alxa, Inner Mongolia, China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 91(5):1908-1909 DOI ↗
V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2016. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5):385-444 DOI ↗
L. M. Chiappe, S. Suzuki, and G. J. Dyke, M. Watabe, K. Tsogtbaatar, R. Barsbold. 2007. A new enantiornithine bird from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(2):193-208 DOI ↗
M. Watabe and K. Tsogtbaatar. 2004. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 2000. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 2:45-67
S. Suzuki and M. Watabe. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1998. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:83-98
M. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:69-82
W. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:30-44
E. Buffetaut. 1995. An ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong (China). Geological Magazine 132(6):683-692 DOI ↗
T. A. Tumanova. 1987. Pantsirnyye dinozavry Mongolii [The armored dinosaurs of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 32:1-80
R. Gradzinski, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and T. Maryanska. 1977. Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta, Barun Goyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia, including remarks on previous subdivisions. Acta Geologica Polonica 27(3):281-318
T. Maryanska. 1971. New data on the skull of Pinacosaurus grangeri (Ankylosauria). Palaeontologia Polonica 25:45-53
Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and K. Kowalski. 1965. Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions to the Gobi Desert in 1963 and 1964. Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Cl. II 13(3):175-179
E. A. Maleev. 1954. Pantsyrnye dinosavry verchnego mela Mongolii (Semeustvo Syrmosauridae) [The Upper Cretaceous armored dinosaurs of Mongolia (family Syrmosauridae)]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 48:142-170
E. A. Maleev. 1952. Novoe semeystvo pantsirnich dinosavrov is verchnego mela Mongolii [A new family of armored dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 87(1):131-134
C.-C. Young. 1935. On a new nodosaurid from Ninghsia. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 11(1):1-28
C. W. Gilmore. 1933. Two new dinosaurian reptiles from Mongolia with notes on some fragmentary specimens. American Museum Novitates 679:1-20