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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.
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 (North America, Europe and Asia), Africa and possibly South America.
"Although it was a herbivore, Stegosaurus wasn't like a cow or a sheep," Benson said. "It's a herbivore that could look after itself. It has these wicked spikes on its tail. It has plates along ...
The herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs were diverse but not as common as sauropods in the Morrison. Fruitadens, previously known as the "Fruita Echinodon", was found to be a heterodontosaurid. Plate-backed stegosaurids included Hesperosaurus mjosi, Stegosaurus ungulatus, S. stenops, and Alcovasaurus longispinus.
The skeletons - two Allosaurus and one Stegosaurus - date back approximately 150 million years. ... Meanwhile, the Stegosaurus is seen an iconic herbivore, whose armoured plates and spiked tail ...
The nearly complete fossilized remains of a stegosaurus fetched $44.6 million at auction Wednesday, Sotheby's said. The fossil, dubbed “Apex,” is considered to be among the most complete ever ...
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.
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.