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armored dinosaur
Sauroplites
Say it like this: “SAWR-o-PLY-teez”
Sauroplites scutiger
Sauroplites ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1953 · Bohlin, B.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 5 m · 16 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- armored dinosaur · Ankylosaur
- Family branch
- Nodosauridae
The story in short
In 1953, B. Bohlin published the name Sauroplites. The name means “saurian hoplite.”
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Aptian), roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago. Finds come from China. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Sauroplites at a length near 5 m.
On the family tree it sits in Nodosauridae, among the armored dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Acantholipan
Acantholipan gonzalezi
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) · roughly 85.7 to 83.6 million years ago
Animantarx
Animantarx ramaljonesi
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
Anoplosaurus
Anoplosaurus curtonotus
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago