Denversaurus
Sign in to saveDenversaurus (meaning "Denver lizard") is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian of Late Cretaceous Western North America. Although at one point treated as a junior synonym of Edmontonia by some taxonomists, current research indicates that it is its own distinct nodosaurid genus.
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Denversaurus (meaning "Denver lizard") is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian of Late Cretaceous Western North America. Although at one point treated as a junior synonym of Edmontonia by some taxonomists, current research indicates that it is its own distinct nodosaurid genus.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|Original skull and osteoderms on Display at Black Hills Institute of Geological Research In 1986, the paleontologists Kenneth Carpenter and Brent Breithaupt described DMNH 468 which was a specimen of a late Maastrichtian nodosaurid, tentatively assigned to Edmontonia sp., discovered from the lower Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota.
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