| Polacanthoides Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous, | |
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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: | †Nodosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Polacanthinae |
| Genus: | †Polacanthoides Nopcsa, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| †Polacanthoides ponderosus Nopcsa, 1928
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Polacanthoides (meaning like Polacanthus) is an invalid genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from Europe.[1] It lived about 140 to 135 million years ago in what is now England. It was named by Nopsca in 1928. The type specimen is NHMUK 2584. It is a junior synonym of both Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus and was based on a chimera of skeletal elements.[2]
- ^ Nopcsa, F. (1928), "Palaeontological notes on reptiles." Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica, tomus, 1, -Pasc. 1, p. 1-84
- ^ Raven, T.J.; Barrett, P.M.; Pond, S.B.; Maidment, S.C. (2020). "Osteology and Taxonomy of British Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–Aptian) Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (4): e1826956. Bibcode:2020JVPal..40E6956R. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1826956.