Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur
Panoplosaurus
Say it pan-op-loh-sore-us. The name means ‘fully-armoured lizard’.
- Length
- 7 m
- Diet
- Plant-eater
- When
- Late Cretaceous79 to 75 million years ago
- Fossils found in
- Canada, USA
- Named by
- Lambe (1919)
- Family tree
- Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Ankylosauria › Nodosauridae
Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33
Lived at the same time
- Achelousaurus · same country
- Albertaceratops · same country
- Avaceratops · same country
- Bambiraptor · same country
- Chirostenotes · same country
- Dryptosaurus · same country
- Gorgosaurus · same country
- Gryposaurus · same country
Other armoured dinosaurs
- Saichania Late Cretaceous
- Pinacosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Edmontonia Late Cretaceous
- Euoplocephalus Late Cretaceous
- Struthiosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Tarchia Late Cretaceous
- Ankylosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Talarurus Late Cretaceous
Source: Panoplosaurus 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.