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Huayangosaurus

Taxonomy

Huayangosaurus was named by Dong et al. (1982). Its type is Huayangosaurus taibaii. It is the type genus of Huayangosauridae.

It was assigned to Stegosauridae by Carroll (1988); to Huayangosaurinae by Dong et al. (1982), Zhou (1983), Zhou (1986), Dong (1990) and Dong (1992); to Huayangosauridae by Galton (1990), Galton (1990), Carpenter et al. (2001), Blows (2001), Galton and Upchurch (2004) and Maidment et al. (2008); and to Stegosauria by Sereno (1986), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Maidment et al. (2006) and Mateus et al. (2009).

Species

H. taibaii (type species)

Sister genera

Chungkingosaurus, Deltapodus, Gigantspinosaurus, Paranthodon, Tuojiangosaurus

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Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1982	Huayangosaurus Dong et al.
1983	Huayangosaurus Zhou p. 15
1986	Huayangosaurus Sereno
1986	Huayangosaurus Zhou p. 35
1988	Huayangosaurus Carroll
1990	Huayangosaurus Dong p. 259
1990	Huayangosaurus Galton
1992	Huayangosaurus Dong p. 166
1997	Huayangosaurus Sereno p. 440 fig. 2
1998	Huayangosaurus Sereno p. 67 fig. 5
1999	Huayangosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2001	Huayangosaurus Blows p. 137
2001	Huayangosaurus Carpenter et al. p. 73 fig. 3.14
2004	Huayangosaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 344
2006	Huayangosaurus Maidment et al. p. 944
2008	Huayangosaurus Maidment et al. p. 390 fig. 11
2009	Huayangosaurus Mateus et al.

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