Taveirosaurus

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Taveirosaurus
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Marginocephalia
Family: Pachycephalosauridae
Genus: Taveirosaurus
Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell, 1991
Species

Taveirosaurus (tah-VAY-roo-SAWR-us - Taveiro + (Greek sauros meaning "lizard") was a pachycephalosaurid dinosaur named after Taveiro, a village in Portugal, near where the fossil was found. It was discovered and described by Telles Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell in 1991. Taveirosaurus was found in Late Cretaceous Europe.

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