Ankylosaurids facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ankylosaurids Temporal range: 160–66 mya
Skeleton of Scolosaurus thronus, Senckenberg Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	†Ornithischia
Suborder:	†Thyreophora
Infraorder:	†Ankylosauria
Family:	†Ankylosauridae Brown, 1908

Skeletal reconstructions of Gastonia at the Utah Museum of Ancient Life

The Ankylosauridae are a family of armoured dinosaurs which evolved 125 million years ago and became extinct 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Ankylosauridae and their sister group, the Nodosauridae make up the infraorder Ankylosauria.

They have been found in western North America, Europe and East Asia. Good specimens are rare; most are known only from fragments, and bits of their armour.

Taxonomy

• Infraorder Ankylosauria
  • Family Ankylosauridae
    • Aletopelta
    • Cedarpelta
    • Gobisaurus
    • Minotaurasaurus
    • Shamosaurus
    • Tatankacephalus
    • Subfamily Ankylosaurinae
      • Ankylosaurus
      • Euoplocephalus
      • Jinyunpelta
      • Nodocephalosaurus
      • Pinacosaurus
      • Saichania
      • Shanxia
      • Talarurus
      • Tarchia
      • Tianzhenosaurus
      • Tsagantegia
    • Subfamily Polacanthinae
      • Gargoyleosaurus
      • Gastonia
      • Hoplitosaurus
      • Hylaeosaurus
      • Mymoorapelta
      • Polacanthus

Images for kids

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  Dyoplosaurus tail reconstruction, showing terms used for parts of ankylosaurid tails

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  Map of ankylosaurine distribution across North America in the Late Cretaceous

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  Diagram showing ankylosaurid skull anatomy

See also

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