Mongolostegus
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Mongolostegus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Stegosauria |
Family: | †Stegosauridae |
Genus: | †Mongolostegus Tumanova and Alifanov, 2018 |
Type species | |
†Mongolostegus exspectabilis Tumanova and Alifanov, 2018 | |
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Mongolostegus (meaning "Mongolian roof") is a genus of stegosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Dzunbain Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is M. exspectabilis,[1] known from a single specimen previously under the nomen nudum Wuerhosaurus mongoliensis.[2]
Mongolostegus is one of the youngest known stegosaurs, along with Stegosaurus,[3] Yanbeilong,[4] and an unnamed species from the Dzunbain Formation.[1]