Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): A new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America (PLOS ONE, Costa & Mateus 2019)
journals.plos.org
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VERIFY:geological_stage: stored=kimmeridgian suggested=tithonian confidence=medium — The 2019 monograph places the holotype ML 433 in the Upper Kimmeridgian–Lower Tithonian Praia Azul Member of the Lourinhã Formation, Miragaia Unit, and states it is most likely earliest Tithonian. The stored stage 'kimmeridgian' also conflicts with the stored 152–145 Ma range, which corresponds to the Tithonian.
Öppna källa ↗Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): A new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America
PLOS ONE
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Peer-reviewed revision by Costa & Mateus (2019) confirming the validity of Miragaia longicollum and its placement within Dacentrurinae, Stegosauridae, Stegosauria, Thyreophora, Ornithischia.
Öppna källa ↗The Lourinhã Formation: the Upper Jurassic to lower most Cretaceous of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal – landscapes where dinosaurs walked
Ciências da Terra / Earth Sciences Journal
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Mateus, Dinis & Cunha (2017) document the geographic distribution, members and fossil localities of the Lourinhã Formation in western Portugal from which all known Miragaia material derives.
Öppna källa ↗Integrated sedimentology and ichnology of Late Jurassic fluvial point-bars – facies architecture and colonization styles (Lourinhã Formation, Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal)
Sedimentology (International Association of Sedimentologists / Wiley)
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Sedimentological reconstruction of the Lourinhã Formation palaeoenvironment as a coastal-plain setting of meandering rivers, point bars and vegetated floodplains, the habitat inhabited by Miragaia.
Öppna källa ↗A model for the bite mechanics in the herbivorous dinosaur Stegosaurus (Ornithischia, Stegosauridae)
Swiss Journal of Geosciences
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Peer-reviewed analysis of stegosaurid jaw and tooth function showing the herbivorous, low-browsing plant-processing feeding mode characteristic of Stegosauridae, the family to which Miragaia belongs.
Öppna källa ↗Stratigraphical correlation of the Late Jurassic Lourinhã Formation in the Consolação Sub-basin (Lusitanian Basin), Portugal
Geological Journal (Wiley)
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Extinct taxon; conservation status NE
Öppna källa ↗A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Original description by Mateus, Maidment & Christiansen (2009) naming Miragaia longicollum and describing its holotype, its at least 17 cervical vertebrae and its unusually long neck.
Öppna källa ↗A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Original description by Mateus, Maidment & Christiansen (2009) naming Miragaia longicollum and describing its holotype, its at least 17 cervical vertebrae and its unusually long neck.
Öppna källa ↗A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Original description by Mateus, Maidment & Christiansen (2009) naming Miragaia longicollum and describing its holotype, its at least 17 cervical vertebrae and its unusually long neck.
Öppna källa ↗A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Original description by Mateus, Maidment & Christiansen (2009) naming Miragaia longicollum and describing its holotype, its at least 17 cervical vertebrae and its unusually long neck.
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