defensive weapons. Later species, belonging to a subgroup called the Stegosauridae, became larger, and developed long hindlimbs that no longer allowed...

of Stegosaurus from the North American Morrison Formation within the Stegosauridae. Fossils of K. aethiopicus have been found only in the Tendaguru Formation...

majority of stegosaurian dinosaurs thus far recovered belong to the Stegosauridae, which lived in the later part of the Jurassic and early Cretaceous...

sheath of a stegosaurian back plate. Hesperosaurus was a member of the Stegosauridae, quadrupedal plant-eaters protected by vertical bony plates and spikes...

of the tail, angled at approximately 45 degrees to the vertical. In stegosauridae, this spike arrangement has become affectionately known as the "thagomizer"...

preoccupied. In the twentieth century Dacentrurus was usually assigned to the Stegosauridae. In 1957, Robert Hoffstetter thought that Dacentrurus was more derived...

†Huayangosauridae (small stegosaurs with flank osteoderms and tail clubs) †Stegosauridae (large stegosaurs) †Ankylosauria (scutes as primary armor) †Parankylosauria...

et al. (2024) recovered Thyreosaurus as dacentrurine member of the Stegosauridae, as the sister taxon to Dacentrurus. These species are in turn sister...

predators by generating high-speed strikes. Miragaia was placed in the Stegosauridae in 2009. Mateus and colleagues performed a phylogenetic analysis and...

former relationship, close to Hesperosaurus and Dacentrurus as basal in Stegosauridae. Wuerhosaurus was recovered in a different position by Escaso et al...