Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur

Nodosaurus

Say it no-doh-SORE-us. The name means ‘node lizard’.

Nodosaurus beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of armoured dinosaurs

Length: 5 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Early Cretaceous110 to 100 million years ago
Fossils found in: USA
Named by: Marsh (1889)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Ankylosauria › Nodosauridae

Where Nodosaurus sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33

Lived at the same time

Sauropelta · same country
Acrocanthosaurus · same country
Aquilops · same country
Deinonychus · same country
Tenontosaurus · same country
Zephyrosaurus · same country
Archaeoceratops
Atlascopcosaurus

Other armoured dinosaurs

Gobisaurus Early Cretaceous
Minmi Early Cretaceous
Sauropelta Early Cretaceous
Shamosaurus Early Cretaceous
Silvisaurus Early Cretaceous
Talarurus Late Cretaceous
Tsagantegia Late Cretaceous
Polacanthus Early Cretaceous

Source: Nodosaurus 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.