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Niobrarasaurus (meaning "Niobrara lizard") is an extinct genus of nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous, around 87 to 82 million years ago. Its fossils were found in the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Formation, in western Kansas, which would have been near the middle of the Western Interior Seaway during the Late Cretaceous. It was probably closely related to Nodosaurus.

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Parent taxon
Nodosauridae
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end time
82000000-0
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genus
taxon name
Niobrarasaurus
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Niobrarasaurus
start time
87000000-0
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Niobrarasaurus (meaning "Niobrara lizard") is an extinct genus of nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous, around 87 to 82 million years ago. Its fossils were found in the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Formation, in western Kansas, which would have been near the middle of the Western Interior Seaway during the Late Cretaceous. It was probably closely related to Nodosaurus.

The type species, Niobrarasaurus coleii, was discovered and collected in 1930 by geologist Virgil Cole. It was originally described by Mehl in 1936 and named as a species of Hierosaurus. It was then re-described as a new genus by Carpenter et al. in 1995. In 2002 the type specimen was transferred to the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas. It has been estimated at in length and around in body mass according to Thomas Holtz. Paul gave a higher estimation of and .

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