Stegosaurides

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Ornithischia Suborder: Thyreophora Genus: Stegosauroides Birger Bohlin, 1953
Species
Stegosaurides excavatus (type)

Stegosaurides (meaning "roof lizard form") was a genus of ankylosaurid (or possibly stegosaurian) dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in the Xinminbao Formation near Heishan in Gansu Province in China.

[edit] Discovery and species

The type species is Stegosaurides excavatus, formally described by Birger Bohlin in 1953. It is currently a nomen dubium as there is material is meagre; a couple of vertebrae and the base of a dermal spine.

[edit] References

• Dong Zhiming (1992). Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing. ISBN 3-540-52084-8.

[edit] External links

• http://dinosauricon.com/genera/stegosaurides.html
• http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a935af.htm