⚠ This taxon is a local entry, absent from the Paleobiology Database. Data may be incomplete or unverified.

Genus

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Eopinacosaurus

Penkalski, 2026

Eopinacosaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid armored dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Bayan Mandahu Formation of China and Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia. The genus contains a single species, Eopinacosaurus mephistocephalus, which was originally assigned to the coeval genus Pinacosaurus.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore

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Fossil of Pinacosaurus, an ankylosaurian dinosaur Took the photo at Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Ornithischia Unranked clade

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Parapredentata Unranked clade

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Saphornithischia Unranked clade

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Prionodontia Unranked clade

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Genasauria Unranked clade

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Thyreophora Unranked clade

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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily

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Eurypoda Unranked clade

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Ankylosauria Unranked clade

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Euankylosauria Unranked clade

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Ankylosauridae Family

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Ankylosaurinae Subfamily

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Eopinacosaurus Genus

Bibliography

Original description

Paul Penkalski (2026) The morphology and systematics of Pinacosaurus Historical Biology (advance online publication) : DOI ↗