#dyoplosaurus

Day 27 of MaySozoic brings: Dyoplosaurus

Maysozoic day 27:

Dyoplosaurus child is being used as a boat by his pachycephalosaur buddy

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Dyoplosaurus can be distinguished from all other known ankylosaurids in that it has sacral ribs that are anterolaterally-directed, triangular unguals in dorsal view, and a tail club knob that is longer than it is wide.

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The ancient walruses Neotherium and Valenictus, from "How the Walrus Got Its Tusks" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDGYGV2LK8

The nodosaurid ankylosaur Borealopelta, in both alive and "bloat-and-float" carcass states, from "The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-UZXBF63z4

The ankylosaurid ankylosaurs Gobisaurus and Dyoplosaurus, from "How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRt-4SdzWrk

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Name: Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus

Name Meaning: Double-Armored Reptile

First Described: 1924

Described By: Parks

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae, Ankylosaurini

Dyoplosaurus is an Ankylosaurine from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, living about 76.5 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. It was about 7 meters long, and had a small and narrow club at the end of its tail, composed of osteoderms fused together. Its tail was also stiffened, in order to help the animal in hitting other members of its species in competition, or more rarely in defense. It lived alongside other dinosaurs such as Edmontonia, Scolosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Spinops, Corythosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Gorgosaurus, which probably preyed upon it. The environment these animals lived in was a fluvial channel near rivers and mountains, with low-lying plants and trees for Dyoplosaurus to feed upon. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyoplosaurus

Arbour, V. M, & P. J. Currie. 2015. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1059985

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