Genus
Valid Extinct

Nipponopelta

Oyabu et al. 2027

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Nipponopelta
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Nipponopelta is the first ankylosaur discovered in Japan. It was a medium-sized nodosaur, at approximately 5 m in length. Typical of ankylosaurs, Nipponopelta was a quadrupedal herbivore covered in spikes and osteoderms down its back and tail. Interestingly, Nipponopelta is more closely related to North American nodosaurids than to its Asian contemporaries. © TotalDino · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
Nipponopelta
Nipponopelta
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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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Nodosauridae Family
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Nipponopelta Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇯🇵 Japan
1
Geological formations
Hikagenosawa
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Nipponopelta yezoensis 101 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
S. Oyabu, Y. Kobayashi, and D. K. Zelenitsky, A. R. Fiorillo, M. Kano. 2027. A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Hikagenosawa Formation in Japan reveals dispersal pattern of Asian nodosaurid ankylosaurs. Cretaceous Research 190(78):106477 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
S. Oyabu, Y. Kobayashi, and D. K. Zelenitsky, A. R. Fiorillo, M. Kano. 2027. A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Hikagenosawa Formation in Japan reveals dispersal pattern of Asian nodosaurid ankylosaurs. Cretaceous Research 190(78):106477 DOI ↗