Emausaurus Temporal range: Early Toarcian
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Restoration of Emausaurus being attacked by an unnamed theropod belonging to the Orionides | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Genasauria |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Genus: | †Emausaurus Haubold, 1990 |
Species: | †E. ernsti
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Binomial name | |
†Emausaurus ernsti Haubold, 1990
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Emausaurus is a genus of thyreophoran or armored dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Early Toarcian). Its fossils have been found in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. Emausaurus is the only known Toarcian thyreophoran, as well as the only dinosaur from the zone of the same age with a formal name.[1]