Describer

Marsh, 1879

Time

Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian

Classification

Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Portugal*; Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Utah, 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 7414 collected by F.W. Beck, named by Marsh in the American Journal of Science, volume 18, pages 501-505, in 1879. The typespecimen consists of dermal bones and vertebrae.

* Escaso, F; Ortega, F.; Dantas, P.; Malafaia, E.; Pimentel, N.L; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Sanz, J.L.; Kullberg, J.C.; Kullberg, M.C.; Barriga, F. (2007) New Evidence of Shared Dinosaur Across Upper Jurassic Proto-North Atlantic: Stegosaurus From Portugal. Naturwissenschaften (Stegosaurus cf. ungulatus)