Saldamosaurus
| Saldamosaurus Temporal range: Upper Jurassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Stegosauria |
| Family: | †Stegosauridae |
| Genus: | †Saldamosaurus Uldansky, 2014 |
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Saldamosaurus is a dubious genus of stegosaurid dinosaur known from fossils discovered in Russia. The type species, Saldamosaurus tuvensis, was named in 2014 but According to Galton and Carpenter (2016) it did not meet the requirements of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[1][2].
In 2016, Peter Malcolm Galton and Kenneth Carpenter declared it a nomen dubium, establishing it as Stegosauridae indet.
Etymology
Saldamosaurus is named after the Saldam Formation in Russia, where its fossils were first discovered.
Known fossil material
Saldamosaurus tuvensis is known from a rather complete braincase lacking the ventral portion of the orbitosphenoid, most of the basisphenoid, the parasphenoid, and the basioccipital.
References
- ^ Peter M. Galton; Kenneth Carpenter (2016). "The plated dinosaur Stegosaurus longispinus Gilmore, 1914 (Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 279 (2): 185–208. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0551.
- ^ Ulansky, R. E., 2014. Evolution of the stegosaurs (Dinosauria; Ornithischia). Dinologia, 35 pp. [in Russian].
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