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bird-hipped dinosaur · Doubtful name
Stegosaurides
Say it like this: “STEG-oh-suh-RYE-deez”
Stegosaurides excavatus
Stegosaurides ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Barremian · Aptian) · roughly 125.8 to 113.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1953 · Bohlin, B.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Thyreophora
The story in short
In 1953, B. Bohlin published the name Stegosaurides.
Fossils referred to Stegosaurides date to the Early Cretaceous (Barremian · Aptian), roughly 125.8 to 113.2 million years ago. Finds come from China. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
The fossils of Stegosaurides are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Thyreophora, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bienosaurus
Bienosaurus lufengensis
Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian) · roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago
Emausaurus
Emausaurus ernsti
Early Jurassic (Toarcian) · roughly 184.2 to 174.7 million years ago
Jakapil
Jakapil kaniukura
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago