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ANIMANTARX
ramaljonesi |
| DESCRIBER | Carpenter, Kirkland, Burge & Bird, 1999 |
| TIME | Cretaceous
Late Cenomanian Turonian |
| CLASSIFICATION | Ornithischia Thyreophora Eurypoda Ankylosauria Nodosauridae |
| DIET | Herbivore |
| FOSSILSITE | Cedar Mountain Formation (Mussentuchit Member), eastern Utah, US |
| LENGTH | 3 meter |
| INFO | "living fortress." Animantarx is a small armored
medium-sized Pawpawsaurus-like nodosaurid ankylosaur whit
rowboat shaped cups of armor. Animantarx is known from a
partial skull and right mandible, and a partial skeleton, including
vertebrae, ribs, both scapula-coracoids, humerus, femur and left
ilium with ischium [Holotype: CEUM 6228R (Prehistoric Museum,
College of Eastern Utah)]. Animantarx skull is estimated at
25 cm long and has a high-domed cranium, very small post-orbital
"horns," small quadratojugal "horn," and an elongated coracoid about
63% the length of the scapula.
It was first discovered by University of Utah radiological technician, Ramal Jones in near where his wife discovered the first specimen of Eolambia. He a detailed survey of the low level radiation levels across the area as he knew the bones there were slightly radioactive. Finding a spot that was slightly radioactive, he said dig here and low and behold the first dinosaur ever discovered solely by technology was found. Animantarx was oriiginally published as a Nomen Nudum by Kirkland, lucas and Estep in 1998 as Anamantarx . |
