Dinosaur: Diracodon laticeps
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Length*: | 7.7 m | 25.3 ft |
Weight*: | 3.4 tons | 7,496 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Late Kimmeridgian-Early Tithonian
Details
Status: nomen dubium
Autor: Marsh
Year: 1881
Area: North America
Country: USA
Region: Wyoming
Formation: Morrison
Classification
Dinosauria
Ornithischia
Genasauria
Thyreophora
Eurypoda
Stegosauria
Stegosauridae
Other
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.
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