Stegosaurides

Stegosaurides
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 130–112 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Genasauria
Clade: Thyreophora
Genus: Stegosaurides
Bohlin, 1953
Species:
S. excavatus
Binomial name
Stegosaurides excavatus
Bohlin, 1953
Synonyms
  • Stegosauroides Colbert, 1961 (sic)

Stegosaurides (meaning "Stegosaurus-shaped") is a genus of herbivorous thyreophoran (perhaps ankylosaurid or possibly stegosaurian) dinosaur. It lived during the Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in the Xinminbao Group near Heishan in Gansu Province in China. These fossils consist of fragmentary material, including dermal spine elements. The genus is occasionally misspelled as "Stegosauroides".