Hoplitosaurus was a genus of armored dinosaur related to Polacanthus. It was named from a partial skeleton found in the (possibly) Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Lakota Formation of Custer County, South Dakota. It is an obscure genus which has been subject to some misinterpretation of its damaged remains. Although there was a push to synonymize it with Polacanthus in the late 1980s-early 1990s, Hoplitosaurus has been accepted as a valid albeit poorly known genus in more recent reviews.
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History[]
Jurassic World[]
Hoplitosaurus appears on the Holoscape in the Innovation Center, however it was only a DNA sample at Jurassic World.
Jurassic Park Franchise[]
Hoplitosaurus is illustrated by Timothy Bradley in the Dinopedia of the Jurassic Park Institute as a flipped and recolored Polacanthus.
