Describer

Marsh, 1887

Time

Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian

Classification

Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming, US

Fall Under

Stegosaurus

Info

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)

USNM 4937 a partial postcranial skeleton collected by J.L. Kennedy in 1883, named by Marsh in the American Journal of Science, volume 34, page 415, in 1887