Acanthopholis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Assigned dermal scutes | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Acanthopholinae Nopcsa, 1923 |
Genus: | †Acanthopholis Huxley, 1867 |
Species: | †A. horrida
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Binomial name | |
†Acanthopholis horrida Huxley, 1867
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Acanthopholis (/ˌækənˈθɒfoʊlɪs/; meaning "spiny scales") is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur in the family Nodosauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of England. A single species, A. horrida, exists.[1]