Stegosaurus duplex Marsh 1887 (ornithischian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae

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 P. M. Galton 2010

See also Bakker 1990, Galton 1990, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Gilmore 1914, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hennig 1915, Kuhn 1964, Lull 1910, Maidment et al. 2008, Marsh 1887, Marsh 1896, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Olshevsky and Ford 1993, Ulansky 2014, Winkler 1893 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Stegosaurus affinis, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus stenops, Stegosaurus sulcatus, Stegosaurus ungulatus, Hypsirophus discurus, Hypsirophus seeleyanus, Diracodon laticeps, Wuerhosaurus homheni

Type specimen: YPM 1858, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Quarry 11, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian wet floodplain mudstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry 11, Como Bluff (YPM)

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