[D] Anoplosaurus curtonotus
Describer
Seeley, 1879
Time
Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Late Albian Cenomanian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Nomina Dubia
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Cambridge Green sand Formations, Cambridgeshire, England
Info
The Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates volume of 1999 contains an article on English nodosaurs in which Suberbiola and Barrett find that Anoplosaurus is a diagnostic nodosaur taxon most closely related to Silvisaurus condrayi and Texasetes pleurohalio. Anoplosaurus major is based on a ankylosaur cervical vertebra and three ornithopod caudal centra. It was originally part of Acanthopholis stereocercus.