Genus: Euoplocephalus LAMBE, 1910
Etymology: Greek, eu-, “good, well”, Greek, hoplon, “weapon, shield”, and Greek, kephale, “head” + us: “Well armored head”.
= Paragenus: Euoplocephalus OLSHEVSKY, 1998
= Eoplocephalius HUNT & LUCAS, 1992 (sic)
= Erroplocephalus NOPCSA, 1928 (sic)
= Euopliocephalus [ANONYMOUS] 1979 (sic)
= Euoplasurus von HUENE, 1956 (sic)
= Euoplocophalus GLUT, 1972 (sic)
= Euoplogy HOU, 1977 (sic)
= Euoplosaurus MALEEV, 1956 (sic)
= Euplocephalus LAMBE, 1920 (sic)
= Europlocephalus C. H. STERNBERG, 1915 (sic)
= Europlosaurus HUENE, 1929 (sic)
= Europocephalus NOPCSA, 1923 (sic)
= Sterecephalus MALEEV, 1956 (sic)
= Stereocephalus LAMBE, 1902 non ARRIBALZAGA, 1884 (Stereocephalus seriatipennis, Insecta, Staphylinidae)
Etymology: Greek, steros, “solid, strong, firm” and Greek, cephalus, “head”: “solid head”.
= Sterocephalus MALEEV, 1956 (sic)

Species: tutus (LAMBE, 1902) LAMBE, 1910
Etymology:
= Stereocephalus tutus LAMBE, 1902
= Palaeoscincus tutus (LAMBE, 1902) HENNING, 1915
= Eoplocephalus tutus HUNT & LUCAS, 1992 (sic)
= Ankylosaurus tutus (LAMBE, 1902) KUHN, 1964

Holotype: CMNFV 00210 (CMN, NMC 0210)

Locality: Locality number P-189704 (Berry Creek P189704) east side of Red Deer River at mouth of Berry Creek, 225 feet above the Red Deer River, 3/4 miles southwest of Steveville, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Partial skull and right mandible, 2 cervical half-rings, vertebrae, ribs, ilium, armor.

Referred martial:


Locality: Quarry 089, 12 miles below Steveville, Red Deer River, about 20 feet from locality 54 of Sternberg’s map, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

AMNH 5404: Skull, most of limb bones, vertebrae, ribs and armour.

Note: 2 of the caudal vertebrae has pathologies; one with a laterally oriented cavity on the ventral edge of the posterior face of the centrum, the second has large cavities between the transverse processes and the centrum on the ventral side. (ARBOUR & CURRIE, 2011)

 

 

Locality: Quarry unknown, 12 miles below Steveville, Red Deer River, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

AMNH 5405: Skull, mandible, predentary, humerus, ulna, terminal caudal plates.

Ventral view of skull, and dentary.

After Coombs, 1995, A) dorsal view; B) left lateral and C) posterior views.

 

COOMBS, 1971

Locality: Quarry unknown, Red Deer River, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

ROM 1930: Skull, vertebrae, ilium, scapula and humerus.

Note: Chevron with pathology, largest free caudal vertebrae is missing the haemal arch and both transverse processes which has an abnormal swelling of bone, the last free has a pathology. (ARBOUR & CURRIE, 2011)

ARBOUR & CURRIE, 2011

RTMP 2005.09.75: First free caudal vertebra with a swolen distally neural spine.

RTMP 1985.36.79: Free caudal vertebra with a swollen neural spine.

RTMP 1992.36.344: Distal free caudal with a pathology on the dorsal aspect of the centrum.

 


Locality: Unknown, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

AMNH 5406: Dorsal vertebrae, ribs, scapula, humerus, ulna, radius, metacarpals, 1 phalanx, complete first half ring, and parital second half-ring, 80 scutes, and a small patch of skin impressions (PENKALSKI, 2001)

CMN (NMC) field no. 6-1914:

CMN (NMC) field no. 6-1915:

CMN (NMC) field no. 12-1915:

CMN (NMC) field no 3-1919:

CMN (NMC) field no. 4-1953:

ROM 833:

ROM 7763:

ROM 7764:

ROM 7765:

ROM 7766:

ROM 7767:

ROM 7770:

ARBOUR & CURRIE, 2013

UALVP 16247 : Tail club, dorsal view.

CMN 135: Tail club, dorsal view.

MACN Pv 12554: Tail club, dorsal view.

 

Locality: Quarry 100, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

AMNH 5409: Isolated pelvis and sacrum; complete right ilium, mostly complete left ilium, complet left ischium and 8 vertebrae forming the sacral rod.

Note: Has a pathology with a broken sacral rib and right ilium. (ARBOUR & CURRIE, 2011)

 

PENKALSKI, 2001

Locality: Quarry 198, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 91.127.1: Skull.

VICKARYOUS, RUSSELL & CURRIE, 2001

RTMP 79.14.164: Left quadratojugal.

RTMP 88.106.5: Left supraorbital.

RTMP 89.36.193: Unfused cranial osteoderm.

RTMP 93.36.79: Left squamosal.

RTMP 98.115.2: Thin section of an isolated fragment of cranial osteoderm.

VICKARYOUS & RUSSELL, 2003

RTMP 79.14.747, 91.127.1, 96.75.1, 97.59.1, UALVP 31: Fragmentary skulls.

 

Locality: Quarry 195, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 98.93.1: Skull and skeleton.

 

Locality: Quarry 203, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 92.81.1: Skull.



Locality:

Horizon: Two Medicine Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

AMNH 5470:

NANH 7943:

NANH 16747:


COOMBS, 1995

Locality: 1.5 miles (2.42 km) above Tolman, 50 feet (15.24 km) above the left bank of Red Deer River, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

AMNH 5211: Major plate.

 


Locality: Quary 246, 3.5 miles (5.64 km), Sternberg's 1914 field collection on the Red Deer River, vicinity of (and above), Dead Lodge Canyon, west of mouth of Little Sandhill Creek, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

CMNFV 02251 (NMC 2251, CMN 2251) (Field # A-1914): Left (?) major plate of tail club.

CMNFV 02252 (NMC 2251, CMN 2252) (Field # 6-1914): Partial tail club.

 

Locality: South side of river, 3 miles above 'Happy Jack Ferry' (Belly River Group), collected by Sternberg in 1914,  Sand Creek, above Dead Lodge Canyon, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

CMNFV 00349 (NMC 349, CMN 349): Tail Club; A) ventral view, after Arbour & Currie, 2013 and B) lateral view after Coombs, 1995.


Locality: Quarry 236, Sternberg's 1914 field collection on the Red Deer River, vicinity of (and above), Dead Lodge Canyon, west of mouth of Little Sandhill Creek, Southwestern extremity of badlands of Little Sandhill Creek, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

CMNFV 02253 (NMC 2253, CMN 2253): Partial tail club.

 

 

Locality: Sternberg, Charles Mortram Sternberg (1919) Ankylosaur site (P191911) | South branch of Little Sandhill Creek, at SW extremity of badlands near prairie level, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

CMNFV 40605 (NMC 40605, CMN 40605): Distal caudals and tail club, A) dorsal view and B) lateral views after Coombs, 1995.

 


Locality: About 0.5 Miles (9.81 km) south of Locality 79 (Sternberg, 1950), sec. 32, Tp20, R11W, of 4th Meri, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

ROM 788: Tail club with co-oosified distal caudal vertebrae. (modified from ARBOUR & CURRIE, 2011).

Note: Has a pathology on the tail club. (ARBOUR & CURRIE, 2011)

 


Locality: RTMP locality 46 (not the same as locality 46 of Sternberg, 1950), Sec. 32, tp20, R11W of 4th Meridian, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

ROM 7761: Partial tail club.

RTMP 1983.36.120: Partial tail club with a pathological tail club with co-oosified distal caudal vertebrae. A) dorsal view, and B), posterior view, after Arbour & Currie, 2013.

 


Locality: C.H. Sternberg (1913) P1313 | Red Deer River, AB, in a ravine 1 . 5 miles south of Steveville. , Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Oldman Formation, middle Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

CMNFV 02234 (NMC 2234, CMN 2234): Partial tail club broken into two pieces.

 

 

Locality: About 5 miles (8.05 km) south of Tolman Bridge, SW 1/4 Sec. 30, Tp. 32, R21W of 4th Meridian, Wheatland County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Edmonton Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Edmontonian age, lower Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 71.40.1: Isolated major plate.

 


Locality: Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Glacier County, Montana.

Horizon: Two Medicine Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

USNM 16747: 3 coossified distal caudal vertebrae.

 

 

Locality: Two Medicine River, 6 miles (9.66 km) from Holy Family Mission, Montana.

Horizon: St. Mary River Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Edmontonian age, Upper Campanian Stage- Lower Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

AMNH 5471: 2 caudal vertebrae and partial tail club.

 

CURRIE & RUSSELL, 2005

Locality: Quarry 151, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

BM R5161: Fragmentary skeleton.

 

Locality: Quarry U110, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 98.53.1: Fragmentary skeleton.

 

Locality: Quarry unknown, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

BM R4947: Skull and skeleton.


DANIS, 1986

Locality: Quarry 041, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

ROM 2162: Skeleton.

BMNH R.4859:

 


LAMBE, 1902

Locality: Below Berry Creek, Red Deer River, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Tooth.

 


GILMORE, 1923

Locality: Quarry 59, about 3/4 a mile southeast of Steveville, at an elevation of 225 feet (aneroid) above the level of the river, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Red Deer River, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UA 31: A well preserved skull and right ramus, two co-oosified rings of plates from the neck, numerous detached dermal scutes, sacrum, right ilium, a few vertebrae and ribs.

 

 

= ?Euoplocephalus tutus MAGANUCO, 2004

Locality: Near Quarry, 137, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Red Deer River, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

MSNM V5179: ?Left ishium.

 

MIYASHITA, ARBOUR, WITMER & CURRIE, 2011

Locality: Unknown, but near Happy Jack's on the north side of Red Deer River, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UALVP 47977: Partial skull.

 

TANOUE, 2005

Locality: Northwestern Montana.

Horizon: Two Medicine Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

NSM PV 20381: Skull and nearly complete skeleton.

 

= Palaeoscincus asper LAMBE, 1902 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:

Holotype: CMNFV 01349 (CMN (NMC) 1349

Locality: Below Berry Creek, Red Deer River, Newell County, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Tooth.