Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus
By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart
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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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