(pronounced huh-PLEE-toh-SAWR-us) Hoplitosaurus meaning Hoplite lizard; a hoplite was an armed soldier) was an ankylosaur , an armored dinosaur. It had rows of flattened horny plates running along its back. Hoplitosaurus was an herbivore (a plant-eater) that walked on four legs and lived during the early Cretaceous period (135-119 million years ago...
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Hoplitosaurus A “Hoplite (armed) lizard” from Early Cretaceous Calico Canyon, South Dakota, USA. This lizard is said to have been named for the hoplites, the name for the heavily armored infantry of ancient Greece. It is also said that it is called, “shield-carrier lizard” from the Greek hoplites, “armed foot-soldier, shiel...
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