Denversaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Skeleton cast of Denversaurus ("Tank"), Houston Museum of Natural Science | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Nodosaurinae |
Clade: | †Panoplosaurini |
Genus: | †Denversaurus Bakker, 1988 |
Type species | |
†Denversaurus schlessmani Bakker, 1988
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Denversaurus (meaning "Denver lizard") is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian of Late Cretaceous Western North America. Although at one point treated as a junior synonym of Edmontonia by some taxonomists, current research indicates that it is its own distinct nodosaurid genus.