Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Alternative combination: Diracodon stenops
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1887. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part IX. The skull and dermal armor of Stegosaurus. American Journal of Science 34:413-417
Belongs to Stegosaurus according to International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 2013
See also Anonymous 1963, Bakker 1996, Barrett 2001, Billon-Bruyat et al. 2010, Borinder et al. 2016, Breeden et al. 2021, Brinkman and Conway 1985, Brown 1932, Buffrénil et al. 1986, Butler et al. 2008, Carpenter 1997, Carpenter 1999, Carpenter 2010, Carpenter and Galton 2001, Carpenter et al. 2001, Chakravarti 1934, Christiansen and Tschopp 2010, Chure et al. 2006, Costa and Mateus 2019, Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2019, Decker 2012, Escaso et al. 2007, Galton 1982, Galton 1990, Galton 2007, Galton 2010, Galton and Ayyasami 2017, Galton and Carpenter 2016, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Gegenbaur 1898, Gilmore 1914, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hennig 1915, Huene 1914, Johnson 1931, Kuhn 1964, Lambe 1915, Lull 1924, Madsen and Stokes 1972, Madsen and Stokes 1978, Maidment et al. 2008, Maidment et al. 2018, Marsh 1887, Marsh 1896, Marsh 1897, Mateus 2006, McIntosh 1981, McWhinney et al. 2001, Moodie 1930, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Olshevsky and Ford 1993, Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2013, Pompeckj 1920, Smith 1997, Swinton 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Tumanova and Alifanov 2018, Ulansky 2014, Ulansky 2014, Ulansky 2014, Vickaryous and Ryan 1997, von Zittel 1911, Winkler 1893, Woodward 1898 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxa: Stegosaurus affinis, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus duplex, Stegosaurus sulcatus, Stegosaurus ungulatus, Hypsirophus discurus, Hypsirophus seeleyanus, Diracodon laticeps, Wuerhosaurus homheni
Type specimen: USNM 4934, a skeleton. Its type locality is Felch Quarry 1, Garden Park (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian channel sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Colorado.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (9: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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