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Silvisaurus
Extinct species of reptile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1][2]
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Silvisaurus | |
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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 | |
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