Biology:Polacanthoides
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Short description: Invalid genus of dinosaur
| Polacanthoides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Chordata |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Dinosauria |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Ornithischia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Thyreophora |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Ankylosauria |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Nodosauridae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Polacanthinae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Polacanthoides Nopcsa, 1928 |
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| †Polacanthoides ponderosus Nopcsa, 1928
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Polacanthoides (meaning Polacanthus like) as named as a genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from Europe.[1] It lived about 140 to 135 million years ago in what is now England . It was named by Nopsca in 1928. The type specimen is NHMUK 2584. It is a junior synonym of both Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus and was based on a chimera of skeletal elements.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Nopcsa, F. (1928), "Palaeontological notes on reptiles." Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica, tomus, 1, -Pasc. 1, p. 1-84
- ↑ Raven, T.J.; Barrett, P.M.; Pond, S.B.; Maidment, S.C. (2020). "Osteology and Taxonomy of British Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–Aptian) Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40 (4). doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1826956.
Wikidata ☰ Q5638133 entry
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