| Dracopelta Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
| Family: | †incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Dracopelta |
| Species: | †D. zbyszewskii
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| †Dracopelta zbyszewskii Galton, 1980
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Dracopelta (meaning “dragon shield”) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaur dinosaur from Portugal that lived during the Late Jurassic (uppermost lower Tithonian-upper Tithonian, 152.1-145.0 Ma) in what is now the Lourinhã Formation. The type and only species is Dracopelta zbyszewskii, which is represented by a partial skeleton including unpublished material.[1][2]
- ^ Russo, J.; Mateus, O. (2021). "History of the discovery of the ankylosaur Dracopelta zbyszewskii (Upper Jurassic), with new data about the type specimen and its locality". Comunicações Geológicas. 108 (1): 27–34. doi:10.34637/dmdm-5w12.
- ^ M. Galton, Peter (1980). "Partial skeleton of Dracopelta zbyszewskii n. gen. And N. SP., an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal". Geobios. 13 (3): 451–457. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(80)80081-7.