Also known as Stegosaurus longispinus type
Where: Natrona County, Wyoming (42.6° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 52.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. H. Reed & A. C. Dart in 1908; reposited in the UW
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1914. Osteology of the armored Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genus Stegosaurus. United States National Museum Bulletin 89:1-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48557: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Stegosaurus longispinus n. sp." = Miragaia longispinus
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