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Polacanthoides Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | † Ornithischia |
Clade: | † Thyreophora |
Clade: | † Ankylosauria |
Family: | † Nodosauridae |
Subfamily: | † Polacanthinae |
Genus: | † Polacanthoides Nopcsa, 1928 |
Type species | |
†Polacanthoides ponderosus Nopcsa, 1928 |
Polacanthoides (meaning like Polacanthus ) is an invalid genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from Europe. [1] It lived about 140 to 135 million years ago in what is now England. It was named by Nopsca in 1928. The type specimen is NHMUK 2584. It is a junior synonym of both Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus and was based on a chimera of skeletal elements. [2]