Sauroplites

• China

• Sauroplites scutiger Bohlin, 1953

Sauroplites is a little-known genus of bird Beck dinosaur ( Ornithischia ) from the group of Ankylosauria.

From Sauroplites only parts of the basin as well as individual ribs and bone plates have been found so far. Due to the anatomy of the fossils it is concluded that this dinosaur was one of the Ankylosauria, the sparse finds allow a more accurate classification shall not be so considered as nomen dubium Sauroplites.

The remains were found in the Chinese province of Gansu and first described in 1953 by the Swedish paleontologist Birger Bohlin. The name derives from the Greek sauros ( = " lizard" ) and hoplite ( a type of soldier ) from. The finds are dated to the early Cretaceous in age 130-110 million years.