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ANOPLOSAURUS
(ah-nop-loe-sore-us)
meaning: "Unarmed/unarmoured lizard"
Named By: Harry Govier Seeley in 1879
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, 100 Ma
Location: England, Cambridgeshire - Cambridge Greensand
Size: Uncertain
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Fragmentary remains, including vertebrae, ribs, hind leg and foot bones, pectoral girdle and partial humerus and partial dentary (lower jaw). Remains are possible those of a juvenile
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Ankylosauria | Nodosauridae |
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Anoplosaurus (meaning "unarmored or unarmed lizard") is an extinct genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur, from the late Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of Cambridgeshire, England. It has in the past been classified with either the armored dinosaurs or the ornithopods, but current thought has been in agreement with the "armored dinosaur" interpretation, placing it in the Ankylosauria.

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