Borealopelta
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Translingual
Etymology
From Latin boreālis (“northern”, adj.) + -o- + pelta (“a small shield”, noun) , 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 – nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur without a club tail.
Hypernyms
- †Nodosauridae (nodosaur, (nodosaurians))
- †Ankylosauria (ankylosaur (ankylosaurians))
- †Ornithischia
- Dinosauria (dinosaurs (dinosaurians))
- Chordata (animals with a spinal cord)
- Deuterostomia (deuterosomes)
- Nephrozoa
- Bilateria (bilaterally symmetric; bilaterians)
- Animalia (animals)
Hyponyms
References
- ^ Caleb M. Brown, et al (2017 August 3) “An Exceptionally Preserved Three-Dimensional Armored Dinosaur Reveals Insights into Coloration and Cretaceous Predator-Prey Dynamics”, in Current Biology, volume 27, number 16,