Named By: | Thomas Henry Huxley in 1867 |
Time Period: | Early Cretaceous |
Location: | England, Kent - Cambridge Greensand |
Size: | Estimated between 3 and 5.5 meters long. Exact details are uncertain due to the fragmentary nature of fossils attributed to the genus |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Scattered and fragmentary fossils |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Ankylosauria | Nodosauridae | |
Acanthopholis (meaning "spiny scales") is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur in the family Nodosauridae that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period of England.