Biology:Saldamosaurus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Suborder: | †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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