Mongolostegus

Mongolostegus is a genus of stegosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Dzunbain Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is M. exspectabilis, known from a single specimen previously under the nomen nudum Wuerhosaurus mongoliensis.[1]

Mongolostegus
Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous, Albian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Suborder: †Stegosauria
Family: †Stegosauridae
Genus: †Mongolostegus
Tumanova and Alifanov, 2018
Type species
Mongolostegus exspectabilis
Tumanova and Alifanov, 2018

History of study

Mongolostegus was first reported by Alifanov et al. (2005) and Alifanov (2012) as an indeterminate stegosaur based on posterior dorsal and anterior caudal vertebrae as well as pelvic material.[2][3] Ulansky (2014) informally dubbed the material Wuerhosaurus mongoliensis, but Galton and Carpenter (2016) found W. mongoliensis to be invalid.[4] It was formally named as Mongolostegus by Tumanova and Alifanov in 2019.[1]

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See also

References
  1. T. A. Tumanova & V. R. Alifanov (2018) First Record of Stegosaur (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Aptian-Albian of Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 52(14) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030118140186 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030118140186
  2. Alifanov, B.P., Tumanova, T.A. & Kurzanov, C.M. (2005): [First discovery of a stegosaur in Mongolia]. – Priroda, 12: 61-63. (In Russian).
  3. Alifanov, B.P. (2012): [Fossil Vertebrates of Russia and Adjacent Countries. Fossil Reptiles and Birds. Part 2]; Moscow (GEOS). (In Russian).
  4. Galton, Peter M.; Carpenter, Kenneth M (2016). "The plated dinosaur Stegosaurus longispinus Gilmore, 1914 (Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 279 (2): 185–208. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0551.


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