Family
Valid Extinct

Polacanthidae

Wieland 1911

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Polacanthidae
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PBDB
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Parapredentata Unranked clade
Saphornithischia Unranked clade
Prionodontia Unranked clade
Genasauria Unranked clade
Thyreophora Unranked clade
Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
Eurypoda Unranked clade
Ankylosauria Unranked clade
Polacanthidae Family
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
3
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Blesa
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Valanginian (137.05–132.6 Ma)
1
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
G. R. Wieland. 1911. Notes on the armored Dinosauria. The American Journal of Science, series 4 31:112-124 DOI ↗
Bibliography (4)
J. I. Kirkland, M. B. Suarez, and C. A. Suarez, R. K. Hunt-Foster. 2016. The Medial Cretaceous in East-Central Utah—the Cedar Mountain Formation and its Bounding Strata. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Field Trip Guide. DOI ↗
J. I. Kirkland, L. Alcalá, and M. A. Loewen, Espílez, L. Mampei, J. P. Wiersma. 2013. The basal nodosaurid Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of northeastern Spain. PLoS One 8(12):e80405:1-40 DOI ↗
J. I. Kirkland and S. K. Madsen. 2007. The Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Eastern Utah: the view up an always interesting learning curve. Utah Geological Association Publication 35
J. I. Canudo, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 2004. Los primeros dientes de anquilosaurio (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) descritos en el Cretácico Inferior de España [The first ankylosaurian teeth (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) described from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain]. Revista Española de Paleontología 19(1):33-46