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representing about half of the
presently known diversity of
stegosaurians.
Stegosaurians had
characteristic small, long, flat,
narrow heads and a horn-covered...
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teeth in the
front of its mouth. All
later stegosaurians lost
these teeth. Like many
other stegosaurians, it had
plates all down its back and spikes...
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represents the
culmination of a
trend towards longer necks seen in
stegosaurians. The Thyreophora, the
larger group they
belong to,
originally seem to...
- may also be
present in non-stegosaurid
stegosaurians. The
cranial remains of stegosaurids, like all
stegosaurians, are
rarely discovered. Hence, a significant...
- species,
Stegosaurus ungulatus, is one of the
largest known of all the
stegosaurians, with the
largest known specimens measuring about 7.5
metres (25 ft)...
- autapomorphy,
Alcovasaurus is
different from the Jur****ic
North American stegosaurians Stegosaurus stenops,
Stegosaurus sulcatus and
Hesperosaurus in that...
-
Period of
China and Mongolia. As such, it was one of the last
genera of
stegosaurians known to have existed.
Wuerhosaurus homheni is the type species, described...
- amphibians),
various groups of
dinosaurs (most
notably ankylosaurs and
stegosaurians), phytosaurs, aetosaurs, placodonts, and
hupehsuchians (marine reptiles...
- the
spikes and
shields of ankylosaurs, the bony
plates and
spines of
stegosaurians evolved from the low-keeled
osteoderms characteristic of
basal thyreophorans...
- (/ˈθæɡəmaɪzər/) is the
distinctive arrangement of four
spikes on the
tails of
stegosaurian dinosaurs.
These spikes are
believed to have been a
defensive measure...
