Borealopelta
Translingual
†Borealopelta markmitchelli fossil
†Borealopelta markmitchelli life restoration
Etymology
From Latin boreālis (“northern”, adj.) + -o- + pelta (“a small shield”, noun) [borrowed from Ancient Greek πέλτη (péltē)], coined in reference to the northern locality and the preserved epidermal scales and osteoderms.[1]
Proper noun
†Borealopelta f
- A taxonomic genus within the family †Nodosauridae – currently contains only one species, a nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur without a club tail.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Eureptilia, Romeriida – clades; Diapsida – subclass; Archosauromorpha – infraclass; Archosauria – division; Ornithodira – subsection; Dinosauria – superorder; †Ornithischia – order; †Ankylosauria – suborder; †Nodosauridae – family; †Nodosaurinae – subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): †Borealopelta markmitchelli – sole species
References
- Borealopelta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Borealopelta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Borealopelta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- ^ Caleb M. Brown, et al (3 August 2017) “An Exceptionally Preserved Three-Dimensional Armored Dinosaur Reveals Insights into Coloration and Cretaceous Predator-Prey Dynamics”, in Current Biology, volume 27, number 16,