Polacanthoides

Polacanthoides (meaning like Polacanthus) is an invalid genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from Europe.^[1] It lived about 140 to 135 million years ago in what is now England. It was named by Nopsca in 1928. The type specimen is NHMUK 2584. It is a junior synonym of both Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus and was based on a chimera of skeletal elements.^[2]

Polacanthoides Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 140–135 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	†Ornithischia
Clade:	†Thyreophora
Clade:	†Ankylosauria
Family:	†Nodosauridae
Subfamily:	†Polacanthinae
Genus:	†Polacanthoides Nopcsa, 1928
Type species
†Polacanthoides ponderosus Nopcsa, 1928

See also

• Timeline of ankylosaur research