Rhadinosaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhadinosaurus (meaning "slender lizard") is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaur first described in 1881 by Harry Govier Seeley, based on remains uncovered in Austria sometime between 1859 and 1870 by Edward Suess and Pawlowitsch.[1] It was a herbivore that lived around 84.9 to 70.6 million years ago (during the Late Cretaceous period).[2] The type species is R. alcimus.
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Rhadinosaurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Clade: | †Euankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae |
Genus: | †Rhadinosaurus Seeley, 1881 |
Species: | †R. alcimus |
Binomial name | |
†Rhadinosaurus alcimus Seeley, 1881 | |
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