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Sauropelta
Taxonomy
Sauropelta was named by Ostrom (1970). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Acanthopholidae by Ostrom (1970); to Struthiosaurinae by Sereno (1986); to Nodosauroidea by Bakker (1988); to Sauropeltinae by Ford (2000); and to Nodosauridae by Coombs (1978), Coombs (1978), Coombs (1979), Molnar (1980), Galton (1983), Russell (1984), Tumanova (1987), Carroll (1988), Weishampel et al. (1991), Gasparini et al. (1996), Coombs and Deméré (1996), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (1997), Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Kirkland (1998), Carpenter et al. (1999), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Barrett (2001), Coria and Salgado (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Ford and Kirkland (2001), Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola (2003), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Lü et al. (2007), Carpenter et al. (2008), Burns (2008), Osi and Makádi (2009) and Parsons and Parsons (2009).
It was assigned to Acanthopholidae by Ostrom (1970); to Struthiosaurinae by Sereno (1986); to Nodosauroidea by Bakker (1988); to Sauropeltinae by Ford (2000); and to Nodosauridae by Coombs (1978), Coombs (1978), Coombs (1979), Molnar (1980), Galton (1983), Russell (1984), Tumanova (1987), Carroll (1988), Weishampel et al. (1991), Gasparini et al. (1996), Coombs and Deméré (1996), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (1997), Carpenter and Kirkland (1998), Kirkland (1998), Carpenter et al. (1999), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Barrett (2001), Coria and Salgado (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Ford and Kirkland (2001), Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola (2003), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Lü et al. (2007), Carpenter et al. (2008), Burns (2008), Osi and Makádi (2009) and Parsons and Parsons (2009).
Species
Sister genera
Aletopelta, Animantarx, Antarctopelta, Edmontonia (syn. Denversaurus, Chassternbergia), Glyptodontopelta, Hungarosaurus, Liaoningosaurus, Niobrarasaurus, Nodosaurus, Panoplosaurus, Pawpawsaurus, Peloroplites, Polacanthus (syn. Euacanthus), Sarcolestes, Silvisaurus, Stegopelta, Struthiosaurus (syn. Leipsanosaurus, Pleuropeltus, Rhodanosaurus, Danubiosaurus, Crataeomus, Rhadinosaurus), Syngonosaurus (syn. Syngonosaurus macrocercus), Texasetes, Zhejiangosaurus, Zhongyuansaurus
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Sauropelta Ostrom pp. 103-104 figs. Pl. 22-27 |
| 1978 | Sauropelta Coombs, Jr. p. 144 |
| 1979 | Sauropelta Coombs, Jr. p. 666 |
| 1980 | Sauropelta Molnar p. 137 |
| 1983 | Sauropelta Galton p. 6 |
| 1984 | Sauropelta Russell p. 23 |
| 1986 | Sauropelta Sereno |
| 1987 | Sauropelta Tumanova |
| 1988 | Sauropelta Bakker p. 21 fig. 10 |
| 1988 | Sauropelta Carroll |
| 1991 | Sauropelta Weishampel et al. p. 208 |
| 1996 | Sauropelta Coombs, Jr. and Deméré p. 319 |
| 1996 | Sauropelta Gasparini et al. p. 584 |
| 1997 | Sauropelta Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 213 |
| 1998 | Sauropelta Carpenter and Kirkland p. 255 |
| 1998 | Sauropelta Kirkland p. 273 fig. 3 |
| 1999 | Sauropelta Carpenter et al. p. 247 |
| 2000 | Sauropelta Ford p. 175 |
| 2001 | Sauropelta Barrett p. 41 |
| 2001 | Sauropelta Carpenter p. 457 |
| 2001 | Sauropelta Coria and Salgado p. 163 |
| 2001 | Sauropelta Ford and Kirkland p. 256 |
| 2001 | Sauropelta Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 199 |
| 2001 | Sauropelta Vickaryous et al. p. 1774 |
| 2003 | Sauropelta Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola p. 161 |
| 2004 | Sauropelta Vickaryous et al. p. 365 |
| 2007 | Sauropelta Lü et al. p. 889 fig. 1 |
| 2008 | Sauropelta Burns p. 1109 |
| 2008 | Sauropelta Carpenter et al. p. 1098 |
| 2009 | Sauropelta Osi and Makádi p. 239 fig. 10 |
| 2009 | Sauropelta Parsons and Parsons p. 736 fig. 18 |
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