Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Introducing Patagopelta cristata <a href="https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/introducing-patagopelta-cristata/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paleonerdish.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">2/12/16/introducing-patagopelta-cristata/</span></a> by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Ferwen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Ferwen</span></a></span> </p><p>Phylogenetic analysis recovered <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Patagopelta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patagopelta</span></a> within <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Nodosaurinae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodosaurinae</span></a>, along with other mid-<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cretaceous</span></a> nodosaurids from North America. These results support the proposal that South American <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ankylosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ankylosaurs</span></a> may have migrated from North America during the Late Cretaceous. The small size of Patagopelta is linked to some event of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dwarfism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dwarfism</span></a> as in the case of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Struthiosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Struthiosaurus</span></a> from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ha%C5%A3eg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haţeg</span></a> Island.</p>