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Wuerhosaurus homheni

Reptilia - Stegosauridae

Taxonomy
Wuerhosaurus homheni was named by Dong (1973). Its type specimen is IVPP V.4006, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wuerho, IVPP site 64043, which is in an Aptian/Albian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Lianmuqin Formation of China.

It was recombined as Stegosaurus homheni by Maidment et al. (2008), Mateus et al. (2009), Maidment (2010) and Maidment et al. (2020); it was considered a nomen dubium by Pereda-Suberbiola et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Wuerhosaurus homheni Dong p. 50 figs. 3-4, Pl. 5-7
1980Wuerhosaurus homheni Chao p. 68
1981Wuerhosaurus homheni Galton p. 43
1986Wuerhosaurus homheni Li et al. p. 27
1986Wuerhosaurus homheni Qi et al. p. 192
1986Wuerhosaurus homheni Zhao p. 69
1990Wuerhosaurus homheni Dong p. 262
1990Wuerhosaurus homheni Galton
1992Wuerhosaurus homheni Dong p. 166
1992Wuerhosaurus homheni Shen and Mateer p. 75
1993Wuerhosaurus homheni Olshevsky and Ford
1994Wuerhosaurus homheni Dong p. 2097
2001Wuerhosaurus homheni Carpenter et al. p. 73
2001Wuerhosaurus homheni Dong p. 99
2003Wuerhosaurus homheni Pereda Suberbiola et al. p. 147
2003Wuerhosaurus homheni Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 294
2004Wuerhosaurus homheni Galton and Upchurch p. 345
2007Wuerhosaurus homheni Wings et al. p. 116
2008Stegosaurus homheni Maidment et al. p. 379
2009Stegosaurus homheni Mateus et al.
2010Wuerhosaurus homheni Carpenter p. 159
2010Stegosaurus homheni Maidment p. 205
2011Wuerhosaurus homheni Xing et al. p. 308
2013Wuerhosaurus homheni Xing et al. p. 62
2014Wuerhosaurus homheni Ulansky p. 5
2016Wuerhosaurus homheni Borinder et al. p. 65
2016Wuerhosaurus homheni Galton and Carpenter p. 191
2018Wuerhosaurus homheni Tumanova and Alifanov p. 1771
2019Wuerhosaurus homheni Costa and Mateus p. 8
2020Wuerhosaurus homheni Li et al. p. 1876
2020Stegosaurus homheni Maidment et al. p. 93
2020Wuerhosaurus homheni Xing et al. p. 81
2021Wuerhosaurus homheni Xing et al. p. 73
2023Wuerhosaurus homheni Manitkoon et al. p. 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Thyreophora()
—Stegosauria()
familyStegosauridae
genusWuerhosaurus
specieshomheni

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Wuerhosaurus homheni Dong 1973
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
S. C. R. Maidment et al. 2008Unlike other species of Stegosaurus, the neural arches of the dorsal vertebrae of S. homheni are deeply excavated dorsal to the neural canal in anterior view (Fig. 8).