Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2021 12:34:20 GMT
"Dino of the Day!": Dyoplosaurus
Pronunciation: Die-op-loe-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Double-armoured lizard".
Species: D. acutosquameus
Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured between 4 and 5 metres long and weighing around 1.5 metric tonnes. Height uncertain.
Family: Ankylosauridae.
Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered by Levi Sternberg in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, in 1919. Named by Canadian palaeontologist, William Arthur Parks, in 1924.
Lived: 76.5 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Canada.
Pronunciation: Die-op-loe-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Double-armoured lizard".
Species: D. acutosquameus
Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured between 4 and 5 metres long and weighing around 1.5 metric tonnes. Height uncertain.
Family: Ankylosauridae.
Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered by Levi Sternberg in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, in 1919. Named by Canadian palaeontologist, William Arthur Parks, in 1924.
Lived: 76.5 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Canada.
