Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Full reference: O. Mateus, S. C. R. Maidment, and N. A. Christiansen. 2009. A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276:1815-1821
Belongs to Miragaia according to F. Costa and O. Mateus 2019
See also Araújo et al. 2009, Cobos and Gascó 2013, Galton 2010, Maidment 2010, Maidment et al. 2020, Manitkoon et al. 2023, Mateus 2009, Mateus et al. 2009, Ortega et al. 2009, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2013, Ulansky 2014 and Ulansky 2014
Sister taxon: Miragaia longispinus
Type specimen: ML 433, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Miragaia, which is in a Kimmeridgian terrestrial sandstone/sandstone in the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Portugal (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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