Miragaia

Named after the locality of Miragaia, Portugal

• Miragaia · Portuguese · place name: the locality in Portugal where the fossil was found

Miragaia is a stegosaur from Portugal. Its name comes from Miragaia, the locality in western Portugal near where the fossil was found. It is known for its unusually long neck, which has more neck vertebrae than other stegosaurs. The species name, M. longicollum, means "long neck".

Named by

Mateus, Maidment and Christiansen

Year named

2009

Period

Late Jurassic

Stages

Kimmeridgian – Tithonian

Found in

Lourinhã Formation, Portugal

A stegosaurian dinosaur. Type species is Miragaia longicollum. It is notable for a neck of about 17 vertebrae, longer than in other stegosaurs.