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World’s Oldest Ankylosaur Had Uniquely Elaborate Dermal Armor


Paleontologists have described a new specimen that confirms the ankylosaurian affinities of Spicomellus, and demonstrated that it has uniquely elaborate dermal armor unlike that of any other vertebrate, living or extinct.

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