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armored dinosaur
Pinacosaurus
Say it like this: “PIN-ak-o-SAWR-us”
Pinacosaurus grangeri
Pinacosaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1933 · Gilmore, C. W.
- Hip height
- 0.9 m · 3 ft
- Length
- 5 m · 16 ft
- Weight
- 1.9 tonnes
- Found in
- Mongolia · Djadokhta
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- armored dinosaur · Ankylosaur
- Family branch
- Ankylosaurinae
The story in short
In 1933, C. W. Gilmore published the name Pinacosaurus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Djadokhta Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Pinacosaurus at a length near 5 m, hips about 0.9 m high, and a body mass around 1.9 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Ankylosaurinae, among the armored dinosaurs.
This entry is the whole genus. The type species is Pinacosaurus grangeri. Other named species include Pinacosaurus hilwitnorum.
Other species with this name
- Pinacosaurus grangeri
- Pinacosaurus hilwitnorum
Close relatives
Akainacephalus
Akainacephalus johnsoni
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Ankylosaurus
Ankylosaurus magniventris
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Anodontosaurus
Anodontosaurus lambei
Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago