The Basal Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of Northeastern Spain

Citation

Kirkland, J. I.; Alcalá, L.; Loewen, M. A.; Espílez, E.; Mampel, L.; Wiersma, J. P. (2013). The Basal Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of Northeastern Spain. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80405. Public Library of Science (PLoS). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080405

Names first published here

• Europelta genus
• Europelta carbonensis species

Cited by genera

• Acanthopholis

  Repeats that Acanthopholis is a nomen dubium and, on that basis, rejects Acanthopholinae in favor of Nopcsa's (1923) Struthiosaurinae, which it defines phylogenetically.

• Europelta

  Places the holotype in the lower Escucha Formation at the Santa María coal mine, Teruel.