Wuerhosaurus
| Wuerhosaurus Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Restoration of W. homheni with low plates | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Stegosauria |
| Family: | †Stegosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Stegosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Wuerhosaurus Dong, 1973 |
| Type species | |
| Wuerhosaurus homheni Dong, 1973
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Wuerhosaurus is an extinct genus of stegosaurine stegosaur dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of China. The genus contains two species, Wuerhosaurus homheni, the type species named in 1973, and Wuerhosaurus ordosensis, named in 1993. It is one of the youngest (most recent) known stegosaurs in the fossil record, alongside Mongolostegus and Yanbeilong.