Alcovasaurus Galton and Carpenter 2016 (ornithischian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae

Full reference: 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

Parent taxon: Dacentrurinae according to S. Sánchez-Fenollosa and A. Cobos 2025

See also Costa and Mateus 2019 and Galton and Carpenter 2016

Sister taxa: Adratiklit, Dacentrurus, Kentrosaurus, Thyreosaurus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Alcovasaurus in the database

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