Catalogue: USNM
4752 Material: right femur,
proximal part of the left humerus, distal part of the left
humerus, a partial right scapula and coracoid, several partial
vertebrae and several dermal scutes Classification: Ornithischia,
Thyreophora, Ankylosauria, Nodosauridae Collected: N. H. Darton,
1898 Place: “Lakota” Formation,
near Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, USA Time: Barremian, Early
Cretaceous Original Publication: F.
A. Lucas. 1901. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 23:591-592 Other References: Lucas,
1902; Gilmore, 1914, Galton, 1983; Pereda-Suberbiola, 1994
This specimen of ankylosaurian dinosaur was originally published
by F. A. Lucas as Stegosaurus marshi. It was subsequently transferred
to a new genus by Lucas in 1902, where it was recognized as distinct
from typical stegosaurs. In 1994, J. Pereda-Suberbiola proposed
that Hoplitosaurus is the same dinosaur as the earlier-named Polacanthus.
It is not known whether this specimen represents a single individual.
