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Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus (/ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːrəs/; lit. 'roof-lizard') is a genus of extinct herbivorous four-legged armored dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails. Fossils of the genus have been found in the western United States and in Portugal, where they are found in…

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related to Resurgent discoveries · 39
Stegosaurus → Alcobaça Formation, Allosaurus, An, As, At Jensen-Jensen Quarry, Bollan Stegosaurus, Brigham Young University, Bryan Small, Casal Novo, Colorado, Denver Museum, Dinosaur Journey Museum, Dinosaur Renaissance, DMNS, Escaso, Felch, Frank Kessler, Garden Park, Harold Bollan, Identified
related to Species · 34
Stegosaurus → Additional, American Museum, AMNH, Articulated, At, Cañon City, Colorado, Como Bluff, Confirmed Stegosaurus, Found, Garden Park, It, Kimmeridgian-lower Tithonian, Many, Marsh, Marshall Felch, Morrison Formation, Morrison Formation's, Natural History, No
related to Paleoecology · 33
Stegosaurus → Allosaurus, Animal, Apatosaurus, Araucaria-like, Barosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Brachyphyllum, Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Camptosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Coelurus, Dinosaurs, Diplodocus, Docodon, Dryosaurus, Gargoyleosaurus, Glyptops, Harpactognathus, Hoplosuchus
related to Bone Wars and Stegosaurus armatus · 31
Stegosaurus → Allosaurus, American Museum, AMNH, Arthur Lakes, Because, Beckwith, Bone Wars, Colorado, Como Bluff, Cope, Cope's Nipple, Cope's Quarry, Diplodocus, Edward Drinker Cope, Garden Park, Hubbell, Hypsirhophus, International Commission, Lakes' YPM Quarry, Many
related to Cultural significance · 29
Stegosaurus → Again, Age, Artist Charles, Auguste-Michel Jobin, Due, Field Museum, Frederic Lucas, French, Jobin, Jurassic, King Kong, Knight, Knight's, Like Marsh's, Lucas, Marsh, Marsh's, Morrison, Natural History, November
related to Early skeletal mounts and plate interpretation · 26
Stegosaurus → Additional, Another, Charles, Charles Gilmore, Como Bluff, Frederick Lucas, Gilmore, He, Hoplitosaurus, However, In, It, Knight, Lucas, Lull's, National Museum, Natural History, NMNH, Peabody Museum, Quarry
related to Second dinosaur rush · 26
Stegosaurus → After, American Museum, AMNH, Bone Cabin Quarry, Bone Wars, Both, Carbon County, Carnegie, Carnegie Museum, CM, Como Bluff, Cope, Dinosaur National Monument, Field Museum, Freezout Hills, Marsh, Natural History, Pittsburgh, Second Dinosaur Rush, The
related to Classification and species · 24
Stegosaurus → Africa, Ankylosauria, Early Cretaceous, Early Jurassic, Eurypoda, Galton, Hesperosaurus, Huayangosaurus, India, Jurassic, Like, Lower Jurassic, Lower Kota Formation, Northern Hemisphere, Paul Sereno, Raven, Sinemurian-Pliensbachian, South America, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae
related to Reassigned species · 22
Stegosaurus → Alcovasaurus, Carpenter, Charles, Chinese Cretaceous, Dong Zhiming, Gilmore, Hesperosaurus, Hoplitosaurus, It, Johnson County, Lexovisaurus, Loricatosaurus, Lucas, Madagascar, Maidment, Majungasaurus, Morrison Formation, Nopcsa, Piveteau, The
related to Plate function · 16
Stegosaurus → Alligator, Another, Bakker, Buffrénil, Christiansen, Davitashvili, Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus, He, Hesperosaurus, However, Likewise, Marsh, Nevertheless, The, Tschopp

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and tails held high in the airinstance ofStegosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs0.80text

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