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Polacanthus--an early dino
Berlin Zoo----August---2012--Polacanthus
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Polacanthus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 127–115Ma
PreЄ
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Family: †Nodosauridae
Subfamily: †Polacanthinae
Genus: †Polacanthus
Owen vide Anonymous, 1865 [1]
Species
†P. foxii Owen vide Anonymous, 1865[2] (type)
†P. rudgwickensis Blows, 1996
Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek polys-/πολύς- "many" and akantha/ἄκανθα "thorn" or "prickle",[3] is an early armored, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaurian dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period of England.
Polacanthus was a quadrupedal ornithischian or "bird-hipped" dinosaur. It lived 130 to 125 million years ago in what is now western Europe.[4] Its type species Polacanthus foxii was named after a find on the Isle of Wight in 1865. There are not many fossil remains of this creature, and some important anatomical features, such as its skull, are poorly known. Early depictions often gave it a very generic head as it was only known from the rear half of the creature. It grew to about 5 metres (16 ft) long. Its body was covered with armour plates and spikes. It possibly was a basal member of the Nodosauridae.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polacanthus
Photo of a big model of Polacanthus:
Polacanthus--an early dino
Berlin Zoo----August---2012--Polacanthus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polacanthus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 127–115Ma
PreЄ
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Family: †Nodosauridae
Subfamily: †Polacanthinae
Genus: †Polacanthus
Owen vide Anonymous, 1865 [1]
Species
†P. foxii Owen vide Anonymous, 1865[2] (type)
†P. rudgwickensis Blows, 1996
Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek polys-/πολύς- "many" and akantha/ἄκανθα "thorn" or "prickle",[3] is an early armored, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaurian dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period of England.
Polacanthus was a quadrupedal ornithischian or "bird-hipped" dinosaur. It lived 130 to 125 million years ago in what is now western Europe.[4] Its type species Polacanthus foxii was named after a find on the Isle of Wight in 1865. There are not many fossil remains of this creature, and some important anatomical features, such as its skull, are poorly known. Early depictions often gave it a very generic head as it was only known from the rear half of the creature. It grew to about 5 metres (16 ft) long. Its body was covered with armour plates and spikes. It possibly was a basal member of the Nodosauridae.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polacanthus
Photo of a big model of Polacanthus: