Panoplosaurus

fully armoured lizard

• panoplos · Greek · fully armoured, in full armour
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines the Greek "panoplos" (fully armoured) with "sauros" (lizard). It refers to the heavy body armour of this nodosaurid ankylosaur, which was covered in bony plates and had large spikes along its sides. The type species is Panoplosaurus mirus.

Named by

Lambe

Year named

1919

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada

A nodosaurid ankylosaur (club-less). It is closely related to Edmontonia, and some authors have argued the two genera are very similar, but Panoplosaurus is generally treated as a valid, distinct genus.