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    By Ashley Patch on @apatchsketches!

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    Name: Minmi paravertebra

    Name Meaning: Named for Minmi Crossing

    First Described: 1980

    Described By: Molnar

    Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae

    Minmi is a poorly known early derived Ankylosaur from the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous, sometime between 119 and 113 million years ago. It was found in the Bungil Formation in Queensland, Australia, and is known from scattered portions of the skeleton, including some belly armour. Most of the decent material that was once ascribed to Minmi has since been given its own genus, Kunbarrasaurus, and its cladistic position is unclear, with current estimates having it as an early derived Ankylosaurid. Despite the poor remains, it is a distinct genus. 

    Sources:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minmi_(dinosaur)

    Arbour, V. M, & P. J. Currie. 2015. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1059985

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    No. Arbour found Kunbarrasaurus to be an early derived Ankylosaur; Minmi an early derived Ankylosaurid.
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