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)
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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.
Åpne kilde ↗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
Sjekket: 5.9.2026
Peer-reviewed revision by Costa & Mateus (2019) confirming the validity of Miragaia longicollum and its placement within Dacentrurinae, Stegosauridae, Stegosauria, Thyreophora, Ornithischia.
Åpne kilde ↗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
Sjekket: 5.9.2026
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.
Åpne kilde ↗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)
Sjekket: 5.9.2026
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.
Åpne kilde ↗A model for the bite mechanics in the herbivorous dinosaur Stegosaurus (Ornithischia, Stegosauridae)
Swiss Journal of Geosciences
Sjekket: 5.9.2026
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.
Åpne kilde ↗Stratigraphical correlation of the Late Jurassic Lourinhã Formation in the Consolação Sub-basin (Lusitanian Basin), Portugal
Geological Journal (Wiley)
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Extinct taxon; conservation status NE
Åpne kilde ↗A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Sjekket: 5.9.2026
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.
Åpne kilde ↗A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Sjekket: 5.9.2026
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.
Åpne kilde ↗A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Sjekket: 5.9.2026
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.
Åpne kilde ↗A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Sjekket: 5.9.2026
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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