Lusitanosaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaur / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lusitanosaurus (meaning "Portuguese lizard") is a genus of large basal thyreophoran dinosaur from the Sinemurian stage of Early Jurassic of Portugal. It is the second example of the group from the Lower Jurassic of Europe and it is the oldest known dinosaur from the Iberian Peninsula. It is based on a large left maxilla with teeth[1] that was lost in the fire at Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisbon, in 1978.[2]
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Lusitanosaurus | |
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Lusitanosaurus liasicus restoration | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Genus: | †Lusitanosaurus |
Species: | †L. liasicus |
Binomial name | |
†Lusitanosaurus liasicus Lapparent & Zbyszewski, 1957 | |
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