Name: "thorny scale" (Gr. 'akanthos' - bear claw, spine, thorn; 'pholis' - scale)
Species:Acanthopholis horridus
Family: Nodosauridae
Order/Suborder: ornithischia/
ankylosauria
Time: middle
Cretaceous; 120 mya
Location: Europe (
England,)
Diet: herbivore
Discovered: 1867, by
Thomas Huxley
Length: 15 ft. (3 m)
Height: 8 ft. (2.5 m) at the hip
Weight: unknown
Acanthopholis was named by the great 19-Century scientist and thinker Thomas Huxley (father of Aldous Huxley). It was slightly smaller than its North American nodosaur relatives. Its head, neck, back and tail were covered with armored plates. called scutes.