Glyptodontopelta
Glyptodontopelta (meaning ""Glyptodon" shield") is a monospecific genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from New Mexico that lived during the Late Cretaceous (lower to upper Maastrichtian, 69 to 66 Ma) in what is now the Naashoibito member of the Ojo Alamo Formation. The type and only species, Glyptodontopelta mimus, is known from numerous specimens that consist of osteoderms, a dentary, supraorbital and bone fragments. It was named in 2000 by Tracy Ford. "Edmontonia australis" is a junior synonym of "Glyptodontopelta". Discovery and naming. Fossils of "Glyptodontopelta", consisting only of bony armor, were found in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The  type species, "Glyptodontopelta mimus", was described by Tracy Lee Ford in 2000. The holotype, USNM 8610, consists of three pieces of fused flat osteoderms, found in the Campanian-Maastrichtian Ojo Alamo Formation. It was concluded to be a dubious name, a "nomen dubium", in a 2004 review of the Ankylosauria, but a 2008 publication by Michael Burns concurred with Ford that its armor was distinctive enough to consider it valid. Burns also assigned "Glyptodontopelta" to Nodosauridae — rejecting Ford's Stegopeltinae — and proposed that another armored taxon from New Mexico, "Edmontonia australis", is a synonym of "Glyptodontopelta mimus", based on analysis  of armor size and shape. Most specimens referred to "Glyptodontopelta" comprise isolated osteoderms. The most complete known specimen, SMP VP-1580, comprises the distal part of a left lower jaw (dentary), a left supraorbital, and over a hundred osteoderms and fragments.