Borealopelta

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Translingual[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin boreālis (northern, adj.) +‎ Latin -o- +‎ Latin pelta (a small shield, noun) [borrowed from Ancient Greek πέλτη (péltē)], coined in reference to the northern locality and the preserved epidermal scales and osteoderms.[1]

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Borealopelta f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nodosauridae – the nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur without a club tail.

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  1. ^ 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, →DOI