Emausaurus
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.
| Emausaurus Temporal range: Early Toarcian Dactylioceras tenuicostatum zone | |
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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 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Emausaurus ernsti Haubold, 1990 | |
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