Silvisaurus is an extinct genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Dakota Formation in Kansas, the United States. The dinosaur is poor from the fossil record, but it is famous in paleontology. The Dakota Formation has more plants than dinosaurs, but known inhabitants include an indeterminate sauropod that was formely Barosaurus and troodontids such as Richardoestesia.
First discovered in the 1950s but named in 1960, Silvisaurus had become the official state land fossil of Kansas in 2023. It is also the only dinosaur to be named in this state. Reconstruction of this dinosaur resemble either Borealopelta or Sauropelta.
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Silvisaurus is one of the created dinosaurs that could be found in the nursery of the Jurassic Park Discovery Center of the Islands of Adventure.
