Wuerhosaurus

Wuerhosaurus
Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous,
Restoration of W. homheni with low plates
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Thyreophora
Clade: Stegosauria
Family: Stegosauridae
Subfamily: Stegosaurinae
Genus: Wuerhosaurus
Dong, 1973[1]
Type species
Wuerhosaurus homheni
Dong, 1973[1]
Species
  • W. homheni Dong, 1973[1]
  • W. ordosensis Dong, 1993[2]
Synonyms
  • Stegosaurus homheni (Dong, 1973) Maidment et al., 2008

Wuerhosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of China and Mongolia. As such, it was one of the last genera of stegosaurians known to have existed.[3]

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