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Montana, 108 million years ago; it's the middle of the dry season and a lone Sauropelta edwardsorum calmly makes it's way down to the shallow water way that meanders it's way through the land. At just under 20 feet long, it has little to fear from predators, its body hardened by thick scales, boney protrusions, and massive spikes.

As it reaches the water, it is confronted by another local resident, one sporting armor not dissimilar to it's own.

S. edwardsorum was a member Nodosaur family, a group of armored dinosaurs that belonged to the same sub order as other armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus. Nodosaurs and Akylosaurs differ from each other in a few key ways, possessing narrow skulls and lacking their cousin's famous tail clubs, usually sporting large shoulder spikes in their place.

Sauropelta was discovered in the 1930s by Barnum Brown, but wasn't named until 1970 by John Ostrom.

Description

Montana, 108 million years ago; it's the middle of the dry season and a lone Sauropelta edwardsorum calmly makes it's way down to the shallow water way that meanders it's way through the land. At just under 20 feet long, it has little to fear from predators, its body hardened by thick scales, boney protrusions, and massive spikes.

As it reaches the water, it is confronted by another local resident, one sporting armor not dissimilar to it's own.

S. edwardsorum was a member Nodosaur family, a group of armored dinosaurs that belonged to the same sub order as other armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus. Nodosaurs and Akylosaurs differ from each other in a few key ways, possessing narrow skulls and lacking their cousin's famous tail clubs, usually sporting large shoulder spikes in their place.

Sauropelta was discovered in the 1930s by Barnum Brown, but wasn't named until 1970 by John Ostrom.