LegendaryNodosaurus
Nodosaurus textilis
NO-doh-SORE-us· “knobbed lizard”
🦕 Dinosaur🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Nodosauridae
6 m
Length
1 m
Height
3.5 t
Weight
One of the first armoured dinosaurs ever named — a club-less nodosaur covered in rows of bony knobs and plates set in a banded, 'woven' pattern that inspired its species name textilis.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~100–94 million years ago
Found in
United States
Discovered
Othniel Charles Marsh, 1889
Did you know?
- Among the first armoured dinosaurs named, back in 1889.
- Its bony armour formed a regular, woven-looking pattern.
- A nodosaur — armoured, but with no tail club.
Artwork: Conty, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.