A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Hikagenosawa Formation in Japan reveals dispersal pattern of Asian nodosaurid ankylosaurs

Citation

Oyabu, S.; Kobayashi, Y.; Zelenitsky, D. K.; Fiorillo, A. R.; Kano, M. (2026). A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Hikagenosawa Formation in Japan reveals dispersal pattern of Asian nodosaurid ankylosaurs. Cretaceous Research 106477. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2026.106477

Names first published here

• Nipponopelta genus
• Nipponopelta yezoensis species

Cited by genera

• Nipponopelta
• Zhejiangosaurus

  Places it outside Nodosauridae under its definition of that clade, and prunes it a posteriori as unstable.