HOLD THE PHONE! This #FossilFriday, a new nodosaurid ankylosaur #dinosaur, Invictarx zephyri, from the Upper Cretaceous of #NewMexico was just published in the #OpenAccess @thePeerJ. Research done by @Hippodraco @ZDIG_Official
https://t.co/pH4K7Qjfoq
Another ankylosaur species named, this time the nodosaurid Invictarx zephyrus from New Mexico. Takes the total of new species in 2018 up to seven!
https://t.co/rYRmGnhXGd
Wow. This new armoured dinosaur has a name, Invictarx zephyri, that can be translated as “unconquerable fortress of the western wind”.
This image is of some of its bony back plates, or osteoderms.
https://t.co/oDwyS7gtrZ https://t.co/JQ7cVOlZou
I'm rather taken with the name of the new ankylosaur, Invictarx zephyri, which the authors translate as "unconquerable fortress of the western wind". (Though I suspect they chose it partly to be a high scorer in Scrabble.)
https://t.co/0wpZiXQ5Xf