Polacanthoides

Polacanthoides
Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous, 140–135 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Family: †Nodosauridae
Subfamily: †Polacanthinae
Genus: †Polacanthoides
Nopsca, 1928
Type species
Polacanthoides ponderosus
Nopsca, 1928

Polacanthoides (meaning Polacanthus like) is an extinct genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from Europe. 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 BMNH 2584. It is a possible junior synonym of Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus. It is now considered to be a nomen dubium or a chimera.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Nopsca, F. (1928), "Palaeontological notes on reptiles." Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica, tomus, 1, -Pasc. 1, p. 1-84
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