Named By: | Rongjun Chen, Wenjie Zheng, Yoichi Azuma, Masateru Shibata, Tianliang Lou, Qiang Jin & Xingsheng Jin in 2013 |
Time Period: | Cretaceous, 113-93.9 Ma |
Location: | China, Zheijiang Province - Chaochuan Formation |
Size: | Unavailable |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Nodosauridae | |
Dongyangopelta is an extinct genus of nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur known from the "middle" Cretaceous Chaochuan Formation (Albian or Cenomanian stage) of Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, China. Dongyangopelta was first named by Rongjun Chen, Wenjie Zheng, Yoichi Azuma, Masateru Shibata, Tianliang Lou, Qiang Jin and Xingsheng Jin in 2013 and the type species is Dongyangopelta yangyanensis. It differs from Zhejiangosaurus, the second nodosaurid from southeast China, in the characters of presacral rod, ilium, and femur. Donyangopelta is distinguishable from Zhejiangosaurus only on the basis of the morphology of its pelvic shield.