Alcovasaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alcovasaurus, alternatively known as Miragaia longispinus, is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic. It was found in the Morrison Formation of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.[1] The type species is Stegosaurus longispinus, later given the genus Alcovasaurus, and in 2019 recombined as Miragaia longispinus.
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Alcovasaurus | |
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Skeletal reconstruction of Alcovasaurus longispinus, with known material in white | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Stegosauria |
Family: | †Stegosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Dacentrurinae |
Genus: | †Alcovasaurus Galton & Carpenter, 2016 |
Species: | †A. longispinus |
Binomial name | |
†Alcovasaurus longispinus (Gilmore, 1914) | |
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