Acantholipan is a genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur from Mexico from the early Santonian age of the Late Cretaceous.

When Rivera-Sylva and colleagues reported the discovery of this specimen, CPC 272, they initially considered it too fragmentary to name.

The generic name combines a Greek akanthos, "spine", with lipán, the usual Spanish designation of the Lépai-Ndé, the "Gray People", a tribe of the Apache inhabiting the area of the find.

The specific name honours the Mexican paleontologist Arturo Homero González-González, the chairman of the Museo del Desierto at Saltillo.

[1] The 2018 phylogenetic analysis of Rivera-Sylva and colleagues is below:[1] Sauroplites Mymoorapelta Dongyangopelta Gastonia Gargoyleosaurus Hoplitosaurus Polacanthus Peloroplites Taohelong Sauropelta Acantholipan Nodosaurus Niobrarasaurus Ahshislepelta Tatankacephalus Silvisaurus