Eucercosaurus Temporal range:
late Albian
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Sacral vertebrae from the holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | † Ornithischia |
Clade: | † Ornithopoda |
Clade: | † Iguanodontia |
Genus: | †
Eucercosaurus Seeley, 1879 |
Species: | †E. tanyspondylus
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Binomial name | |
†Eucercosaurus tanyspondylus Seeley, 1879
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Synonyms | |
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Eucercosaurus (meaning "good-tailed lizard" [1]) is the name given to a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous. It was an ornithopod discovered in the Cambridge Greensand of England and is known from 19 centra, 3 sacrals, 4 dorsals and 12 caudals, and a neural arch found near Trumpington, Cambridgeshire. [1] [2] The type species, E. tanyspondylus, was described by British paleontologist Harry Seeley in 1879. [3]
It is considered a dubious name, and was once considered an ankylosaur. [4] According to a 2020 study, Eucercosaurus and Syngonosaurus were basal iguanodontians. [5]