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Pinacosaurus
Pinacosaurus grangeri Gilmore 1933
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 89.8–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Pinacosaurus grangeri is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 89.8–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Gilmore 1933. The species is represented by 16 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~47%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 16 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Pinacosaurus sits in deep time
Pinacosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Pinacosaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.