Japan’s first named ankylosaur was linked to nodosaurids millions of years ago
More than three decades after a partial ankylosaur skull was first discovered in a Hokkaido riverbank deposit, researchers have formally named it as a new genus and species, Nipponopelta yezoensis, the first ankylosaur ever formally named from Japan. The study, ‘ A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper…
The Times of India ·