Alcovasaurus
| Alcovasaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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| Skeletal reconstruction with known material in white | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Stegosauria |
| Family: | †Stegosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Dacentrurinae |
| Genus: | †Alcovasaurus Galton & Carpenter, 2016 |
| Species: | †A. longispinus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alcovasaurus longispinus (Gilmore, 1914)
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Alcovasaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaurs that lived in the Late Jurassic. It was found in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming, United States. The genus contains a single species, Alcovasaurus longispinus, originally assigned to the genus Stegosaurus. It is likely a member of the Dacentrurinae, and has been referred to the genus Miragaia by some authors.