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Panoplosaurus
Panoplosaurus rugosidens (Gilmore 1930)
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 83.6–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Panoplosaurus rugosidens is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Gilmore 1930). The species is represented by 9 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~30%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 9 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Panoplosaurus sits in deep time
Panoplosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Panoplosaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.