Stegosauria (redirect from Stegosauridae)
defensive weapons. Later species, belonging to a subgroup called the Stegosauridae, became larger, and developed long hindlimbs that no longer allowed...
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of Stegosaurus from the North American Morrison Formation within the Stegosauridae. Fossils of K. aethiopicus have been found only in the Tendaguru Formation...
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majority of stegosaurian dinosaurs thus far recovered belong to the Stegosauridae, which lived in the later part of the Jurassic and early Cretaceous...
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sheath of a stegosaurian back plate. Hesperosaurus was a member of the Stegosauridae, quadrupedal plant-eaters protected by vertical bony plates and spikes...
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of the tail, angled at approximately 45 degrees to the vertical. In stegosauridae, this spike arrangement has become affectionately known as the "thagomizer"...
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preoccupied. In the twentieth century Dacentrurus was usually assigned to the Stegosauridae. In 1957, Robert Hoffstetter thought that Dacentrurus was more derived...
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†Huayangosauridae (small stegosaurs with flank osteoderms and tail clubs) †Stegosauridae (large stegosaurs) †Ankylosauria (scutes as primary armor) †Parankylosauria...
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et al. (2024) recovered Thyreosaurus as dacentrurine member of the Stegosauridae, as the sister taxon to Dacentrurus. These species are in turn sister...
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predators by generating high-speed strikes. Miragaia was placed in the Stegosauridae in 2009. Mateus and colleagues performed a phylogenetic analysis and...
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former relationship, close to Hesperosaurus and Dacentrurus as basal in Stegosauridae. Wuerhosaurus was recovered in a different position by Escaso et al...
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