Acantholipan

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn, spine”) and English Lipan, referring to its armor and the Lepai-Nde tribe who live in the area its fossils were found.

Proper noun

†Acantholipan m

1. A taxonomic genus within the clade Ornithischia – a nodosaurid dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Mexico.