ALETOPELTA COOMBS

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 This animal im about to describe is an Aletopelta Coombsi. This armored dinosaur is related to many other soraus, for example the stegosaurs. They both have bony plates and tale spikes. This animal has been found in many places like California, and other states.

ALETOPELTA COOMBSI

         Holotype discovered in 1987 first reported by Coombs and Demere 1996 as an undiagnostic nodosaurid.A Coombsi is founded upon a partial skeleton from marine strata, including eight teeth, fragmantary scapulae, partial humerus, partial ulna, possible fragment of right raduis, ulna, partial left and right ischium, femora, tibiae, fibulae, four or five partial vertebrae, dorsal neural arch, neural arch of sacrum, fragmentary ribs, partial armour over pelvic girdles in situ, at least sixty detached armour plates, numerous indeterminate fragments most embedded in the matrix many probably broken ribs or armor, subadult. The dermal armor consisted of thick shoulder patches and spikes, low keeled lateral plates, and an interlocking mosaic of polygonal ossicles that covered the entire pelvic region.