Stegosaurides
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".
| Stegosaurides Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Scientific 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 | |
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