Alcovasaurus
| Alcovasaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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| Skeletal reconstruction with known material in white | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Stegosauria |
| Family: | †Stegosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Dacentrurinae |
| Genus: | †Alcovasaurus Galton & Carpenter, 2016 |
| Species: | †A. longispinus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Alcovasaurus longispinus (Gilmore, 1914) | |
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Alcovasaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaurs that lived in the Late Jurassic. It was found in the Morrison Formation of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. The genus contains a single species, Alcovasaurus longispinus, originally assigned to the genus Stegosaurus. It is likely a member of the Dacentrurinae, and has been referred to the genus Miragaia by some authors.