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Stegosaurus (/ ˌ s t ɛ ɡ ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; [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.
In order to explore the feeding habits of stegosaurids, Reichel (2010) [59] created a 3-D model of Stegosaurus teeth using the software ZBrush. The model finds that the bite forces of Stegosaurus was significantly weaker than that of Labradors, wolves and humans. The finding suggests that these dinosaurs would be capable of breaking smaller ...
Holotype of Dacentrurus armatus (NHMUK OR 46013), from Owen's 1875 monograph. On 23 May 1874, James Shopland of the Swindon Brick and Tyle Company reported in a letter to Professor Richard Owen that their clay pit, the Swindon Great Quarry below Old Swindon Hill at Swindon in Wiltshire, had again produced a fossil skeleton that he was willing to donate to the British Museum of Natural History.
Thyreophora ("shield bearers", often known simply as "armored dinosaurs") is a group of armored ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the Early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous. Thyreophorans are characterized by the presence of body armor lined up in longitudinal rows along the body.
The massive specimen, named Apex, will be on display at the American Museum of Natural History for four years, the museum said.
Kentrosaurus (/ ˌ k ɛ n t r oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / 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.
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.
A Stegosaurus skeleton described as the “most complete and best preserved” of its kind ever discovered is ... the Stegosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur with a tiny head and bony plates ...