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Platypelta
Platypelta coombsi Penkalski 2018
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Platypelta coombsi is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Penkalski 2018. The species is represented by 7 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~24%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 7 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Platypelta sits in deep time
Platypelta
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Platypelta's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.