Genus: Europelta KIRKLAND, ALCALA, LOEWEN, ESPILEZ, MAMPEL & WIERSMA, 2013
Etymology: "Euro" as a contraction for Europe in regard to its origin and Greek, pelta, "shield"; a common root for ankylosaurian genera; "Europe's sheild".

Species: carbonensis KIRKLAND, ALCALA, LOEWEN, ESPILEZ, MAMPEL & WIERSMA, 2013
Etymology: The speific name "carbonensis" from the coal, is in honor of acces to the fossil locality in the Santa Maria coal mine provided by Sociedad Anonima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa (SAMCA Group), which has been extractin coal in Arino (Teruel) since 1919.

Holotype: PCPTD/MAP AR-1/10

Locality: Fundacion Conjunto Paleontologico of Teruel-Dinopolis locality AR-1, Sociedad Anonima Minera Catalano-Aragonesa Group's Arino coal mine, east of Arino, Teruel Province, Spain.

Horizon: Lowest minerable coal seam, Lower Escucha Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Aptian or Early Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Disarticulated partial skeleton.

Europelta carbonensis (modified from KIRKLAND, et al., 2013), Holotype: PCPTD/MAP AR-1/10.

Breakdown as follows;

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-544: Mostly complete skull.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-133, AR-1-639: Left and right nasals.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-323 to AR-1-325, AR-1-343, AR-1-358, AR-1-417, AR-1-418, AR-1-423, AR-1-428, AR-1-454, AR-1-482, AR-1-564, AR-1-567: 14 teeth.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-649: Atlas.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-431, AR-1-449, AR-1-533, AR-1-637, AR-1-650: 5 cervical vertebrae.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-450, AR-1-4452: 2 cervical ribs.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-638: Possibly the first dorsal vertebrae.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-154, AR-1-155, AR-1-322, AR-1-430, AR-1-448, AR-1-478, AR-1-535, AR-1-566: 7 posterior dorsal vertebrae.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-154: A section of synascrum.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-331, AR-1-333, AR-1-476: 3 isolated dorsal ribs.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-339, AR-1-341, AR-1-427, AR-1-534, AR-1-641, AR-1-642, AR-1-676: 7 dorsal rib fragmetns.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-562, AR-1-635, AR-1-636: 3 caudal vertebrae.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-560, AR-1-561, AR-1-569, AR-1-4451: 4 chevrons.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-657: A coracoid with a small portion of scapula.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-429: A scapular blade fragment.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-252, AR-1-4675: 2 xiphosternal plates.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-327, AR-1-655: 2 partial humeri.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-479: A right ilium-ischium-pubis.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-129: A left ischium-pubis.

PCPTD/MAP AR-1-126 to AR-1-128, AR-1-192, AR-1-234, AR-1-241, AR-1-246, AR-1-247, AR-1-272, AR-1-276, AR-1-438, AR-1-333, AR-1-447, AR-1-462, AR-1-462, AR-1-464, AR-1-467, AR-1-472, AR-1-461, AR-1-462, AR-1-464, AR-1-467, AR-1-472, AR-1-496 to AR-1-530, AR-1-651 to AR-1-653, AR-1-659, AR-1-675, AR-1-4550, AR-1-4454 to AR-1-4463: 70 osteoderms.

Paratype

PCPTD/MAP AR-1/31: Partial skeleton deposited at Fudacion Conjunto Paleontologico de Teruel-Dinopolis/Museuo Aragones de Paleontologia (FCPTD/MAP);

Breakdown as follows;

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3698: Partial left jaw wiht dentary and surangular.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-2945: Isoalted angular.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3432, AR-1-3495, AR-1-3524, AR-1-3650, AR-1-3699 to AR-1-3705, AR-1-3961: 10 teeth.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3586, AR-1-3632, AR-1-3657, AR-1-3671, AR-1-3676: 5 cervical vertebrae.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3489, AR-1-3586, AR-1-3633, AR-1-3622, AR-1-3672 to 3675, AR-1-3677, AR-1-3704: 9 dorsal vertebrae.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3450, AR-1-3451: 3 to 4? dorsosacral vertebrae.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3446: Sacrum.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3512: A caudosacral vertebra.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3452, AR-1-3460: 2 sacral rib fragments.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-2950, aR-1-3204, AR-1-3206, AR-1-3243, AR-1-3465, AR-1-3348, AR-1-3398, AR-1-3478, AR-1-3615, AR-1-3616, AR-1-3714 to 3717: 14 caudal vertebrae.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3490: Right ilium.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3521, AR-1-3571: 2 left ilium fragments.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3648, AR-1-3649: 2 ischia wiht fused pubes.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3244: Right femur.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3237: Right tibia.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3238: Right fibula.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3239: Calcaneum.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3100, AR-3173, AR-1-3233, AR-3234: 4 metatarsals.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3032, AR-1-3066, AR-1-3714, AR-1-3179, AR-3324, AR-1-3292, AR-1-3356: 8 phalanges.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-2952, AR-1-2986, AR-1-3172, AR3181, AR-1-3182, AR3288, AR-1-3291, AR-1-3386, AR-1-3172, AR-1-3181, AR-1-3182, AR-3288, AR-1-3291, AR-1-3386, AR-1-3711: 9 unguals.

FCPTD/MAP AR-1-3024, AR-1-3030, AR-1-3074 to AR-1-3076, AR-1-3080, AR-1-3145, AR-1-3159, AR-1-3180, AR-1-3207 to AR-1-3209, AR-1-3216, AR-1-3223, AR-1-3226 to AR-1-3229, AR-1-3292, AR-1-3236, AR-1-3242, aR-1-3388 to AR-1-3340, AR-1-3390, AR-1-3438, AR-1-3347 to AR-1-3449, AR-1-3491, AR-1-3492, AR-1-3494, AR-1-3506, AR-1-3540, AR-1-3572 to AR-1-3576, AR-1-3587, AR-1-3588, AR-1-3590, AR-1-3597, AR-1-3598, aR-1-3608 to AR-1-3613, AR-1-3638, AR-1-3658, AR-1-3680 to AR-1-3684, AR-1-3687, AR-1-3708, AR-1-3720, AR-1-3721, AR-1-3932 to AR-1-3960: