Ankylosauridae

Ankylosauridae is a family of any armoured dinosaur which evolved 125 million years ago and became extinct 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Ankylosauridae and their sister group, the Nodosauridae make up the infraorder Ankylosauria. 

They have been found in western North America, Europe and East Asia. Good specimens are rare; most are known only from fragments, and bits of their armour.

Scelidosaurus, whose remains had been found in England, was described by Richard Owen in 1861. Its exact position in the group is still not yet agreed. It was a largely quadrupedal armoured animal from the Lower Jurassic, feeding on low scrubby plants. This is pretty much a description of many dinosaurs in this group.

 Taxonomy 
 Infraorder Ankylosauria
Family Ankylosauridae
Ahshislepelta
Aletopelta
Cedarpelta
Gobisaurus
Minotaurasaurus
Shamosaurus
Tatankacephalus
Subfamily Ankylosaurinae
Ankylosaurus
Akainacephalus
Euoplocephalus
Jinyunpelta
Nodocephalosaurus
Pinacosaurus
Saichania
Shanxia
Talarurus
Tarchia
Tianzhenosaurus
Tsagantegia
Subfamily Polacanthinae
Gargoyleosaurus
Gastonia
Hoplitosaurus
Hylaeosaurus
Mymoorapelta
Polacanthus
Ankylosaur

Category:Ankylosauria