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Stegouros
Say it like this: “steh-GOO-ross”
Stegouros elengassen
Stegouros ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Chile.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Soto-Acuña, S.; Vargas, A. O.; Kaluza, J.; Leppe, M. A.; Botelho, J. F.; Palma-Liberona, J.; Simon-Gutstein, C.; Fernández, R. A.; Ortiz, H.; Milla, V.; Aravena, B.; Manríquez, L. M. E.; Alarcón-Muñoz, J.; Pino, J. P.; Trevisan, C.; Mansilla, H.; Hinojosa, L. F.; Muñoz-Walther, V.; Rubilar-Rogers, D.
- Hip height
- 0.6 m · 2 ft
- Length
- 1.8–2 m · 6–7 ft
- Weight
- 80 kg · 176 lb
- Found in
- Chile · Dorotea
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- armored dinosaur · Ankylosaur
- Family branch
- Parankylosauria
The story in short
The genus Stegouros dates to 2021, the year S. Soto-Acuña and colleagues described it. The name means “roofed tail.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian), roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Chile, including the Dorotea Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Stegouros at a length near 1.8–2 m, hips about 0.6 m high, and a body mass around 80 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Parankylosauria, among the armored dinosaurs.