Named By: | Theodore H. Eaton Jr in 1960 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 96-93.5 Ma |
Location: | USA, Kansas - Dakota Formation |
Size: | Skull 25 centimetres long. Body estimated to be about 4 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial post cranial skeleton, skull and mandible |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Ankylosauria | Nodosauridae | |
Silvisaurus, from the Latin silva "woodland" and Greek sauros "lizard", is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the middle Cretaceous of Kansas.