Silvisaurus
| Silvisaurus Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, | |
|---|---|
| Holotype skeleton on display at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum in Lawrence, Kansas | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
| Family: | †Nodosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Nodosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Silvisaurus Eaton, 1960 |
| Species: | †S. condrayi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Silvisaurus condrayi Eaton, 1960 | |
Silvisaurus, from the Latin silva "woodland" and Greek sauros "lizard", is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous period. It is one of the only known dinosaur species named from Kansas and was designated the official state land fossil in 2023.