What is Ankylosauridae?
Ankylosauridae is a family of armoured dinosaurs with broad skulls, plates embedded in the skin and, in most known members, a heavy club at the tail tip. They lived in the Cretaceous of Asia and North America.
Skull and club shapes vary between genera, which helps researchers tell them apart. Some members listed in catalogues, such as Minmi, are placed here with less certainty, so read each field note for the classification discussion.
How this group is defined here
Members are the 4 field notes whose family or immediate parent group in the Paleobiology Database catalogue is Ankylosauridae. The interpreted diet field across the group is herbivore, based on skeletal features rather than direct observation. Groups are revised when new fossils are described, and some genera are placed here with less certainty than others, so each field note records its sources and limits.
