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Cope, 1878. Diracodon Marsh, 1881. Stegosaurus (/ ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːrəs /; [2] lit. 'roof-lizard') is a genus of herbivorous, four-legged, armored dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails.
Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Stegosaurian fossils have been found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, predominantly in what is now North America, Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. Their geographical origins are unclear; the earliest unequivocal ...
Skeletal mount of Stegosaurus. This timeline of stegosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the stegosaurs, the iconic plate-backed, spike-tailed herbivorous eurypod dinosaurs that predominated during the Jurassic period. The first scientifically documented stegosaur remains were recovered ...
Description. Apex is the largest and most complete known Stegosaurus skeleton, with 254 bones preserved out of approximately 319. It measures 3.4 metres (11 ft) in height and 8.2 metres (27 ft) in length. [1] The specimen is 150 million years old, dating to the Late Jurassic epoch. [2] The exact species it belongs to is not known.
The stegosaurus was one of the world's most distinctive dinosaurs, featuring pointy plates on its back. Hatton has called Apex “a coloring book dinosaur,” for its well-preserved features.
The nearly complete fossilized remains of a 161-million-year-old stegosaurus discovered in Colorado in 2022 will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York next week, auction house officials said. The ...
The hole perfectly matches a thagomizer spike. [1] A thagomizer (/ ˈθæɡəmaɪzər /) is the distinctive arrangement of four spikes on the tails of stegosaurian dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators. [2][1] The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name.
Kentrurosaurus. Hennig, 1916. Doryphorosaurus. Nopcsa, 1916. Kentrosaurus (/ ˌkɛntroʊˈsɔːrəs / KEN-troh-SOR-əs; lit. 'prickle lizard') is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic in Lindi Region of Tanzania. The type species is K. aethiopicus, named and described by German palaeontologist Edwin Hennig in 1915.