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Ferganastegos

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Clade
  
Dinosauria

Family
  
†Stegosauridae

Order
  
Ornithischia

Class
  
Reptilia

Suborder
  
†Stegosauria

Phylum
  
Chordata

Genus
  
†Ferganastegos Ulansky, 2014

Similar
  
Amargastegos, Alcovasaurus, Fosterovenator, Panguraptor, Bienosaurus

Ferganastegos is a genus of stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Balabansai Formation of Fergana Valley, Kyrgyzstan.

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Description

The holotype of Ferganastegos callovicus, IGB 001, consists of four posterior dorsal vertebrae. Although Averianov et al. did not consider the vertebrae diagnostic to genus, the freelance Russian dinosaur enthusiast Roman Ulansky decided that the differences between IGB 001 and other stegosaurs were sufficient to warrant a binomial for IGB 001, Ferganastegos callovicus (Callovian roof from Fergana Valley).

Biology

Based on present of stegosaur diet, Ferganastegos would have been a low-browsing herbivore.

References

Ferganastegos Wikipedia