Skeletal reconstruction of Alcovasaurus longispinus, with known material in white
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Stegosauria
Family:
†Stegosauridae
Subfamily:
†Dacentrurinae
Genus:
†Alcovasaurus Galton & Carpenter, 2016
Species:
†A. longispinus
Binomial name
†Alcovasaurus longispinus
(Gilmore, 1914)
Synonyms
Kentrosaurus longispinus (Gilmore, 1914) Olshevsky & Lee Ford, 1993
Miragaia longispinus (Gilmore, 1914) Costa & Mateus, 2019
Stegosaurus longispinus Gilmore, 1914
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.[1] The type species is Stegosaurus longispinus, later given the genus Alcovasaurus.
^Galton, Peter M.; Carpenter, Kenneth (5 February 2016). "The plated dinosaur Stegosaurus longispinus Gilmore, 1914 (Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 279 (2): 185–208. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0551.
Formation suggests that Alcovasaurus is a separate genus and that Miragaia is indeed a subjective junior synonym of Dacentrurus. Alcovasaurus was a large stegosaur...
that has largely been lost. It is now the type species of the genus Alcovasaurus, though it has been referred to Miragaia. Stegosaurus madagascariensis...
the most complete dinosaur ever found in Portugal. They also renamed Alcovasaurus, which was discovered in 1908, into a possible second species: Miragaia...
paleontological community, and S. longispinus has been assigned to its own genus, Alcovasaurus, differing from Kentrosaurus in having more elongated tail spikes and...
(Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen."". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen...
Camarasaurus, Brontosaurus and Amphicoelias. Three genera of stegosaurs, Alcovasaurus, Stegosaurus and Hesperosaurus, have been found there. Finally, ornithopods...
Hesperosaurus mjosi, Stegosaurus armatus, S. ungulatus, S. stenops, and Alcovasaurus longispinus. Armored dinosaurs that weren't stegosaurs were unknown in...
Chunkingosaurus as the most basal true stegosaurians. The position of Alcovasaurus was uncertain, and further work could change the result. Below is the...
(Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen...
Albinykus Albisaurus – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian reptile Alcovasaurus – possible junior synonym of Miragaia Alectrosaurus Aletopelta Algoasaurus...
(Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen.", Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen...
(Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western U.S.), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen.", Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen...
(Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen...
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