Alcovasaurus

DV-0940

Diet: Herbivore
Group: Stegosaurs, Stegosauridae
Named by: Galton and Carpenter 2016

Field notes

About Alcovasaurus

Alcovasaurus was a plant-eating stegosaur. It belongs to the family Stegosauridae.

It was named by Galton and Carpenter in 2016.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

No finds with map coordinates are recorded yet.

Close relatives

Other members of Stegosauridae.

StegosaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
KentrosaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
DacentrurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
WuerhosaurusEarly Cretaceous
TuojiangosaurusMiddle Jurassic
HesperosaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
ChungkingosaurusMiddle Jurassic
YanbeilongEarly Cretaceous

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton and K. Carpenter. 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