Bissektipelta
Name:
Bissektipelta
(Bissekty Shield).
Phonetic: Bis-sek-te-pel-tah.
Named By: Jolyon Parish & Paul Barret -
2004. (originally named as Amtosaurus archibaldi
by A. O.
Aviarianov in 2002).
Synonyms: Amtosaurus archibaldi.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Orithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae.
Species: B. archibaldi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Uzbekistan - Bissekty Formation.
Time period: Turonian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Braincase, osteoderms and
teeth.
Bissektipelta was first named as a species of Amtosaurus in 2002, however a subsequent evaluation of that genus found the type species, A. magnus to be indeterminate and possibly be those of a hadrosaur and not an ankylosaur. As such, the braincase that represented the second species, A. archibaldi was moved to its own genus Bissektipelta in 2004. The name is a reference Bissekty Formation where the first remains were found combined with the Ancient Greek for shield ‘pelta’.
Further reading
- An ankylosaurid (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Upper
Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. - A. O.
Aviarianov - 2002.
- A reappraisal of the ornithischian dinosaur Amtosaurus
magnus
Kurzanov and Tumanova 1978, with comments on the status of A.
archibaldi Averianov 2002 - Canadian Journal of Earth
Sciences
41 (3): 299-306. - Jolyon Parish & Paul Barrett
- 2004.
- The Brain Morphology and Neurobiology in Armored Dinosaur Bissekipelta
archibaldi (Ankylosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of
Uzbekistan. -
Paleontological Journal. 53 (3): 315−321. - V. R. Alifanov & S.
V. Saveliev - 2019.
- The braincase of Bissektipelta archibaldi — new insights into
endocranial osteology, vasculature, and paleoneurobiology of
ankylosaurian dinosaurs. - Biological Communications. 65 (2): 85−156. -
Ivan Kuzmin, Ivan Petrov, Alexander Averianov, Elizaveta Boitsova,
Pavel Skutschas, Hans-Dieter Sues - 2020.
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