Propanoplosaurus

Propanoplosaurus is a genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Patuxent Formation of Maryland, USA. Its type specimen is a natural cast and partial natural mold of a hatchling.

==Discovery and naming== left|thumb|The Patuxent Formation in [[Maryland, where the holotype of P. marylandicus was discovered in 1997]] From 1994 on, Ray Stanford uncovered an ichnofauna in Maryland near the border with Washington D.C. Along with dinosaur footprints, the impressions of a neonate nodosaurid, specimen USNM 540686, were found by Stanford in 1997.