Describer

Marsh, 1877

Time

Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian

Classification

Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

(Type from Lakes Quarry 5, Colorado) Morrison Formation, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, US

Fall Under

Stegosaurus

Length

9 meter

Info

Typespecies

Stegosaurus (Marsh, 1877) = Diracodon (Marsh, 1881)

Stegosaurus > Stegosaurus armatus (Marsh, 1877) >> Stegosaurus ungulatus (Marsh, 1879) Stegosaurus sulcatus (Marsh, 1887) Stegosaurus duplex (Marsh, 1887) Hypsirhophus seeleyanus (Cope, 1879)

Stegosaurus > Stegosaurus stenops (Marsh, 1887) >> Diracodon laticeps (Marsh, 1881)

Stegosaurus > Stegosaurus longispinus (Gilmore, 1914)

Holotype YPM 1850 Vertebrae, parts of hindleg en parts of plates

Two partial skeletons, 2 braincases at least 30 fragmentary postcrania, adult