Regnosaurus
| Regnosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Stegosauria (?) |
| Genus: | †Regnosaurus Mantell, 1848 |
| Species: | †R. northamptoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Regnosaurus northamptoni Mantell, 1848
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Regnosaurus (meaning "Sussex lizard") is an extinct genus of herbivorous presumably armored dinosaur known from the early Cretaceous Wealden Formation of England. The genus contains a single species, Regnosaurus northamptoni, known from a single partial jaw bone. Regnosaurus has traditionally been regarded as a stegosaur, possibly related to the Jurassic Huayangosaurus of China. Later research considers it to be a dubious, indeterminate thyreophoran.