#glyptops

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Hooray it's World Turtle Day 🐢!

Turtles aren't the only ones with an armored back, here's a hypothetical encounter between Sauropelta and Glyptops.

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Work in progress underpainting for a new painting featuring an encounter between Sauropelta edwardsorum and a sluggish Glyptops plicatulus. Sauropelta was a mid-sized (17 feet in length)member of the Nodosauridae family, related to the more well known Ankylosaurs, dinosaurs of this group possessed armor, but lacked the club tail weapons, often making up for them with large spikes on the size of their bodies. It lived during the Early Cretaceous period, roughly 108.5 million years ago in what would become western North America.

It was first discovered in the early 1930s by paleontologist Barnum Brown who also discovered the first remains of Tyrannosaurus rex among many other specimens. It wasn't officially named until John Ostrum of Yale University did so in 1970.

In 1932 a trackway was discovered in British Columbia that included tracks that were eventually attributed to Sauropelta or one of it's relatives.