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Ankylosaurus
Ankylosaurus magniventris Brown 1908
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 72.2–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Ankylosaurus magniventris is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 72.2–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Brown 1908. The species is represented by 15 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~45%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 15 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Ankylosaurus sits in deep time
Ankylosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Ankylosaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.