Describer

Nopcsa, 1916

Time

Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Classification

Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Tendaguru Beds, Mtwara, Tanzania

Fall Under

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

Typespecies

Genus

Info

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus (Hennig, 1915) = Doryphorosaurus (Nopcsa, 1916) Kentrurosaurus (Hennig, 1916)

Proposed replacement name for supposedly preoccupied Kentrosaurus, alluding to the spines along its back.

Doryphorosaurus is fully synonymous with Kentrosaurus aethiopicus.