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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Stegopelta (meaning roofed shield ) is a genus of armored dinosaur. It is based on a partial skeleton from the latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian-age and Belle Fourche Member of the Frontier Formation of Fremont County, Wyoming.In 1905, Samuel Wendell Williston described FMNH UR88, a partial skeleton consisting of a maxilla fragment, seven cervical and two dorsal , part of a sacrum and both ilia, caudal vertebrae, parts of the scapulae, both humeral heads, portions of an ulna and both radii, a metacarpal, partial tibia, metatarsal, and including a shoulder spine and neck ring. Unfortunately, it was in poor condition, as it had eroded from a slope and been walked on by cattle. Ankylosaurians being very poorly known, Williston compared his new genus to Stegosaurus, and the armor to that of Glyptodon; like that mammal, Stegopelta had a fused section of armor (in its case over the pelvis). Moodie redescribed it in 1910, and considered it to be close to, if not the same as, Ankylosaurus.

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