Dinosaur: Stegosaurus armatus
Length*: | 8 m | 26.2 ft |
Weight*: | 3.8 tons | 8,377 lb |
ESR: 2 / 4 (estimated size reliability)
Period
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Early Tithonian
Details
Status: nomen dubium
Autor: Marsh
Year: 1877
Area: North America
Country: USA
Region: Colorado
Formation: Morrison
Classification
Dinosauria
Ornithischia
Genasauria
Thyreophora
Eurypoda
Stegosauria
Stegosauridae
Stegosaurinae
Other
Material: Vertebrae, proximal right ischium, a partial femoral shaft, and fragmentary large dermal plate.
References: Galton, P. M. (2010) "Species of plated dinosaur Stegosaurus (Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic) of western USA: new type species designation needed".
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