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Dinosaur: Diracodon laticeps
| Length*: | 7.7 m | 25.3 ft |
| Weight*: | 3.4 t | 7,496 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Late Kimmeridgian-Early Tithonian
Years: 154.8–145 Ma
Details
Status: nomen dubium
Author: Marsh
Year: 1881
Distribution
Area: North America
Country: USA
Region: Wyoming
Formation: Morrison
Locations
Sources
Material: Two maxillary bones, referred a distal tail with spikes ? and three carpal bones in manus ?
References: Galton, P. M. (2011). Case 3536 Stegosaurus Marsh, 1877 (Dinosauria, Ornithischia): proposed replacement of the type species with Stegosaurus stenops Marsh, 1887.
