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Lexovisaurus

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Lexovisaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Thyreophora
Infraorder: Stegosauria
Family: Stegosauridae
Genus: Lexovisaurus
Hoffstetter (1957)
Species
  • Lexovisaurus durobrivensis

Lexovisaurus was a dinosaur from mid-to-Late Jurassic Europe, 165 mya. It was a stegosaur. Its fossils have been found in France and England.

It differed from most stegosaurids: a pair of spikes grew from its front shoulder area. The type specimen, Lexovisaurus durobrivensis, was formalized by Hoffstetter in 1957. The specimen was originally placed in Omosaurus 70 years earlier.

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