Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Stegosaurian fossils have been found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere (North …

Oct 19, 2025 · Stegosaurus, one of the various plated dinosaurs (Stegosauria) of the Late Jurassic Period (159 million to 144 million years ago) recognizable by its spiked tail and series of large …

Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) comprising the taxonomic group Stegosauria, a suborder, or infraorder, of herbivorous dinosaurs of …

Sep 7, 2010 · Stegosauria is a clade of ornithischian armoured dinosaurs characterised by the presence of two rows of dorsally projecting dermal plates and spines that extended from the neck to the end of …

Taxonomic details Taxonomy: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae, Stegosaurinae Named by: Marsh (1877) Type species: armatus

Aug 21, 2023 · The Stegosaurus is one of the most iconic dinosaurs to ever roam the planet. You might remember it from your childhood, that imposing creature with double rows of large, flat plates running …

Stegosaurus name consists of two Greek words: ‘stegos – roof’, and ‘sauros – lizard’. Therefore, the name of these dinosaurs literally means 'roof (ed) lizard'. George Marsh (who found the first fossils of …

Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.

Stegosaurus (/ ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːrəs /; [1] lit. 'roof-lizard') is a genus of herbivorous four-legged armored dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along …

Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs that belonged to the larger group of armored dinosaurs known as thyreophorans. They lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, approximately …