Wuerhosaurus

Wuerhosaurus
Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous,
Restoration of W. homheni with low plates
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Thyreophora
Clade: Stegosauria
Family: Stegosauridae
Subfamily: Stegosaurinae
Genus: Wuerhosaurus
Dong, 1973
Type species
Wuerhosaurus homheni
Dong, 1973
Species
  • W. homheni Dong, 1973
  • W. ordosensis Dong, 1993
Synonyms
  • Stegosaurus homheni (Dong, 1973) Maidment et al., 2008

Wuerhosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of China. As such, it was one of the last genera of stegosaurians known to have existed.