Alcovasaurus

Alcovasaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
150 Ma
Skeletal reconstruction of Alcovasaurus longispinus, with known material in white
Scientific classification Edit this 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)
Synonyms

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.

  1. ^ Galton, Peter M.; Carpenter, Kenneth (5 February 2016). "The plated dinosaur Stegosaurus longispinus Gilmore, 1914 (Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 279 (2): 185–208. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0551.