Alcovasaurus
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. The type species is Stegosaurus longispinus, later given the genus Alcovasaurus, and in 2019 recombined as Miragaia longispinus.
| Alcovasaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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| Skeletal reconstruction of Alcovasaurus longispinus, with known material in white | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Suborder: | †Stegosauria |
| Family: | †Stegosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Dacentrurinae |
| Genus: | †Alcovasaurus Galton & Carpenter, 2016 |
| Species: | †A. longispinus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Alcovasaurus longispinus (Gilmore, 1914) | |
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