Rhadinosaurus
Rhadinosaurus (meaning "slender lizard") is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaur first described in 1881 by Harry Govier Seeley, based on remains uncovered in Austria sometime between 1859 and 1870 by Edward Suess and Pawlowitsch. It was a herbivore that lived around 84.9 to 70.6 million years ago (during the Late Cretaceous period). The type species is R. alcimus.
| Rhadinosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Suborder: | †Ankylosauria |
| Clade: | †Euankylosauria |
| Family: | †Nodosauridae |
| Genus: | †Rhadinosaurus Seeley, 1881 |
| Species: | †R. alcimus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Rhadinosaurus alcimus Seeley, 1881 | |
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