Hypsirhophus
Hypsirhophus (meaning "high roof"; often misspelled "Hypsirophus") is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaurs. It contains a single species, Hypsirhophus discurus, which is known only from a fragmentary specimen. The fossil consists of partial vertebrae from the back, three from the tail, and a piece of rib.
| Hypsirhophus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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| Hypothetical life restoration of H. discurus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Suborder: | †Stegosauria |
| Family: | †Stegosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Stegosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Hypsirhophus Cope, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| †Hypsirhophus discurus Cope, 1878 | |
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