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Pinacosaurus

Say it pin-ak-oh-sore-us. The name means ‘plank lizard’.

Pinacosaurus 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
Weight
1 tonnes
Diet
Plant-eaterplants
When
Late Cretaceous81 to 75 million years ago
Fossils found in
China, Mongolia
Named by
Gilmore (1933)
Family tree
Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Ankylosauria › Ankylosauridae
TriassicJurassicCretaceousPinacosaurus252 Ma66 Ma
Where Pinacosaurus 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

Other armoured dinosaurs

Source: Pinacosaurus 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.