Dinosaur: Spicomellus afer
Period
Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Bathonian-Callovian
Details
Status: valid
Autor: Maidment et al.
Year: 2021
Area: Africa
Country: Morocco
Region: Fès-Meknès
Formation: El Mers III
Classification
Dinosauria
Ornithischia
Genasauria
Thyreophora
Eurypoda
Ankylosauria
Other
Material: Rib with spiked dermal armour.
References: Maidment, Susannah C. R.; Strachan, Sarah J.; Ouarhache, Driss; Scheyer, Torsten M.; Brown, Emily E.; Fernandez, Vincent; Johanson, Zerina; Raven, Thomas J.; Barrett, Paul M. (2021). "Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur".
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