Diracodon laticeps Marsh 1881 (ornithischian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1881. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part V. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 21:417-423

Belongs to Diracodon according to P. M. Galton 2010

See also Bakker 1996, Carpenter and Galton 2001, Galton 1990, Galton 2007, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Gilmore 1914, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hennig 1915, Kuhn 1964, Maidment et al. 2008, Marsh 1881, Marsh 1887, Marsh 1896, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Ulansky 2014 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Stegosaurus affinis, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus duplex, Stegosaurus stenops, Stegosaurus sulcatus, Stegosaurus ungulatus, Wuerhosaurus homheni, Hypsirophus seeleyanus, Hypsirophus discurus

Type specimen: YPM 1885, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian crevasse splay sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM)

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