Ahshislepelta
Name:
Ahshislepelta.
Phonetic: Ah-shis-le-pel-tah.
Named By: Michael E. Burns & Robert M.
Sullivan - 2011.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae?
Species: A. minor (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: USA, New Mexico - Kirtland
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeleton.
Ahshislepelta
is a genus of ankylosaurid
dinosaur that lived in North America during
the late Cretaceous. Unfortunately the partial remains of
Ahshislepelta which include a shoulder girdle,
partial left
forelimb, vertebrae and osteoderms (the bony armour) are not
enough to identify the genus as either a general ankylosaurid
or a more derived ankylosaurine.
Another
ankyosaur from the Kirtland Formation is Nodocephalosaurus,
while
hadrosaurs
like Parasaurolophus
and Kritosaurus,
ceratopsians
like
Pentaceratops
and ornithomimosaurs
like Ornithomimus
are also present.
Predatory dinosaurs such as dromaeosaurs
were also present, but
large
tyrannosaurs
such as Bistahieversor
would have been a particular danger.
Further reading
- A new ankylosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation,
San Juan Basin, with comments on the diversity of ankylosaurids in
New Mexico - Michael E. Burns and Robert M. Sullivan -
2011.
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