Stegouros
| Stegouros | |
|---|---|
| Reconstructed skeleton and select elements of the holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Ankylosauria (?) |
| Clade: | †Parankylosauria |
| Genus: | †Stegouros Soto-Acuña et al., 2021 |
| Species: | †S. elengassen
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| Binomial name | |
| †Stegouros elengassen Soto-Acuña et al., 2021
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Stegouros (/ˌstɛɡəˈjʊərɒs/, meaning "roofed tail") is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Dorotea Formation of southern Chile. The genus contains a single species, Stegouros elengassen, known from a semi-articulated, near-complete skeleton. Stegouros is a member of the Parankylosauria, a clade of small Gondwanan armored dinosaurs. It is characterized by its small body size and distinct arrangement of fused osteoderms forming a macuahuitl-like tail weapon.