Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 104–93.5 Ma
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Ankylosauria
Family:
†Nodosauridae
Subfamily:
†Nodosaurinae
Genus:
†Silvisaurus Eaton, 1960
Species:
†S. condrayi
Binomial name
†Silvisaurus condrayi
Eaton, 1960
Silvisaurus, from the Latin silva "woodland" and Greek sauros "lizard", is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous period. It is one of the only known dinosaur species named from Kansas and was designated the official state land fossil in 2023.[1][2]
^ University of Kansas BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE & NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, “Kansas Designates Silvisaurus Condrayi the Official State Land Fossil,” April 10, 2023, (https://biodiversity.ku.edu/kansas-designates-silvisaurus-condrayi-official-state-land-fossil)
^Liggett, Gregory A. (2005-01-01). "A review of the dinosaurs from Kansas". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 108 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1660/0022-8443(2005)108[0001:AROTDF]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-8443.
The skull of Pawpawsaurus bears some notable similarities to that of Silvisaurus, such as the presence of teeth in the premaxilla and the restriction...
front and ends at a relatively broad premaxillary beak, as compared to Silvisaurus. The premaxillae are fused along their mid-line and are dorsoventrally...
officially named Kansas state fruit, retrieved 2022-04-12 Kansas designates Silvisaurus condrayi the official state land fossil, retrieved 2024-02-17 Kansas...
Propanoplosaurus Lower Cretaceous herbivore Nodosaurid dinosaur from Maryland. Silvisaurus Upper Cretaceous herbivore Herbivorous nodosaur from the state of Kansas...
present in unrelated taxa like Heterodontosaurus, Protoceratops and Silvisaurus. Galton made Hypsilophodontidae paraphyletic, as he considered Thescelosaurus...
of a unique clade of ceratopsians only known from southern Laramidia Silvisaurus 1960 Dakota Formation (Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, Albian to...
sutures (boundaries) like the ones seen in Panoplosaurus, Pawpawsaurus, Silvisaurus, and many other ankylosaurs. This could also be an artifact of preservation...
1986 by Paul Sereno, who used it to unite Panoplosaurus, Sauropelta, Silvisaurus and Struthiosaurus within Nodosauridae, excluding Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus...
(2018) positioned Ahshislepelta in a polytomy containing Tatankacephalus, Silvisaurus, Niobrarasurus, Nodosaurus and more deeply nested taxa. Rivera-Sylva...
ventrally. This is similar to in Miragaia, Huayangosaurus, the ankylosaur Silvisaurus, and Heterodontosaurus, but unlike in Chungkingosaurus, Stegosaurus,...
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