Loricatosaurus

armoured lizard (lizard "provided with a cuirass")

• lorica · Latin · cuirass, body armour
• -atus · Latin · provided with
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines the Latin "lorica" (a Roman cuirass or body armour) and "-atus" (provided with) with the Greek "sauros" (lizard). It means "armoured lizard" and refers to the bony plates and spikes that protected this stegosaur. It was created in 2008 for material that had earlier been placed in Lexovisaurus.

Named by

Maidment et al.

Year named

2008

Period

Middle Jurassic

Stage

Callovian

Found in

Oxford Clay Formation, England (with possible French material)

A stegosaurid. The type species is L. priscus. Some researchers prefer to treat the English material as belonging to Lexovisaurus, so the genus's validity is not universally agreed. The exact extent of the French material referred to it is uncertain.