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Agilisaurus

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Agilisaurus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, 168–161 Ma
Mounted skeleton at the Zigong museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Genus: Agilisaurus
Peng, 1990
Species:
A. louderbacki
Binomial name
Agilisaurus louderbacki
Peng, 1990

Agilisaurus (/ˌædʒɪlɪˈsɔːrəs/; 'agile lizard') is an ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now eastern Asia.

The fossils were first discovered from the Sichuan Province of China in 1915.