Describer

Owen, 1875

Time

Jurassic Late Oxfordian Kimmeridgian

Classification

Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Lower Kimmerdige Clay, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Wiltshire; Corallian Oolite Formation, Dorset, England; Argiles d\\\'Octeville, Seine-Maritime, France; unnamed unit, Estramadura, Portugal; Collado Formation, Spain

Fall under

Dacentrurus

Length

7 meter

Info

Typespecies

Dacentrurus (Lucas, 1902) > Dacentrurus armatus (Owen, 1875) = Omosaurus armatus (Owen, 1875 / Leidy, 1856) > Omosaurus hastiger (Owen, 1877), Omosaurus lennieri (Nopcsa, 1911) Astrodon pusillus (Lapparent & Zbyszewski, 1957)

[ML433] Nearly complete postcranial skeleton, partial postcranial skeleton, 4 sacra,femora, 16 fragmentary postcrania, juvenile to adult. Named for its armor, with large spines along the tail. To replace preoccupied Omosaurus. Dacentrurus armatus is represented by a few partial skeletons (length approximately 7m)