Cedarpelta

Cedar shield

• Cedar · English · from the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah
• pelta · Greek · small shield

The name combines "Cedar", for the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah where the fossils were found, with the Greek word "pelte", meaning a small shield. The "shield" part refers to the armoured nature of ankylosaurs. The only species is Cedarpelta bilbeyhallorum.

Named by

Carpenter et al.

Year named

2001

Found in

Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA

An ankylosaurian (armoured) dinosaur. It is known from fairly good skull material and is considered a relatively primitive ankylosaur. I'm not certain of its exact geologic stage, so I've left the period and stage fields blank.