Acanthopholis

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”) + φολίς (pholís, “scale”), named by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1867 in reference to its armor.

Proper noun

†Acanthopholis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nodosauridae – an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of England.