Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur
Minmi
Say it min-mie. The name means ‘named after Minmi Crossing, Queensland’.
- Length
- 3 m
- Diet
- Plant-eater
- When
- Early Cretaceous121 to 112 million years ago
- Fossils found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Molnar (1980)
- Family tree
- Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Ankylosauria
Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33
Lived at the same time
- Atlascopcosaurus · same country
- Leaellynasaura · same country
- Austrosaurus · same country
- Archaeoceratops
- Equijubus
- Fukuiraptor
- Fukuisaurus
- Gobisaurus
Other armoured dinosaurs
- Gobisaurus Early Cretaceous
- Sauropelta Early Cretaceous
- Shamosaurus Early Cretaceous
- Silvisaurus Early Cretaceous
- Polacanthus Early Cretaceous
- Nodosaurus Early Cretaceous
- Cedarpelta Early Cretaceous
- Gastonia Early Cretaceous
Source: Minmi in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.