Euankylosauria
unranked clade · Soto-Acuna et al. 2021 · accepted · extinct
148 descendant taxa · 562 fossil sites · 145 formations · 24 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Paleogene
199.5–66 million years ago
Found where
24 countries
145 rock formations
Fossil record
562 sites
107 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 134 million years, from 199.5 to 66 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 66 million years old — that is roughly 220 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Euankylosauria was named in 2021 (Soto-Acuna et al. 2021) — 5 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 24 countries and 145 named rock formations.
- 107 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 148 named taxa, including 70 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).