Borealopelta
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin boreālis (“northern”, adj.) + -o- + 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]
Proper noun
[edit]Borealopelta f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Nodosauridae – the nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur without a club tail.
Hypernyms
[edit]- Nodosauridae (“nodosaur”) (nodosaurians)
- Ankylosauria (“anklyosaur”) (anklyosaurians)
- Ornithischia
- Dinosauria (“dinosaur”) (dinosaurians)
- Chordata (“animals with a spinal cord”)
- Deuterostomia (“deuterosomes”)
- Nephrozoa
- Bilateria (“bilaterally symmetric”) (bilaterians)
- Animalia (“animals”)
Hyponyms
[edit]- Borealopelta markmitchelli / B. markmitchelli
- Suncor nodosaur
References
[edit]- ^ 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,