Ahshislepelta
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Ahshislepelta (meaning "Ah-shi-sle-pah Wash shield") is a monospecific genus of ankylosaur dinosaur from New Mexico that lived during the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian stage, 74.5 Ma) in what is now the Hunter Wash Member of the Kirtland Formation.[1] The type and only species, Ahshislepelta minor, is known only from an incomplete postcranial skeleton of a small subadult or adult individual.[1] It was named in 2011 by Michael Burns and Robert M. Sullivan.[1] Based on the size of the humerus, Ahshislepelta is larger than Pinacosaurus mephistocephalus but smaller than Talarurus and Pinacosaurus grangeri.[1]
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Ahshislepelta | |
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Restoration as a nodosaurid | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Genus: | †Ahshislepelta Burns & Sullivan, 2011 |
Species: | †A. minor |
Binomial name | |
†Ahshislepelta minor Burns & Sullivan, 2011 | |
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