Miragaia longispinus Gilmore 1914

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae

Alternative combinations: Alcovasaurus longispinus, Kentrosaurus longispinus, Natronasaurus longispinus, Stegosaurus longispinus

Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1914. Osteology of the armored Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genus Stegosaurus. United States National Museum Bulletin 89:1-136

Belongs to Miragaia according to F. Costa and O. Mateus 2019

See also Borinder et al. 2016, Breithaupt 1990, Carpenter et al. 2001, Chure et al. 2006, Escaso et al. 2007, Galton 1990, Galton 2010, Galton and Carpenter 2016, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Hay 1930, Hennig 1915, Kuhn 1964, Maidment et al. 2008, Mateus 2006, Mook 1916, Olshevsky and Ford 1993, Ulansky 2014, Ulansky 2014 and Ulansky 2014

Sister taxon: Miragaia longicollum

Type specimen: UW D54, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Alcova Quarry (UW), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian terrestrial horizon in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (2: Wyoming collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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