Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Full reference: S. Zhou. 1986. De l'origine et de l'évolution systématique des Stegosauria à la lumière des fossiles connus [On the origin and systematic evolution of the Stegosauria in light of the known fossils]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 31-38
Parent taxon: Stegosauridae according to R. E. Ulansky 2015
See also Olshevsky and Ford 1993, Ulansky 2014, Zhou 1986 and Zhu 1994
Sister taxa: Changdusaurus, Dacentrurinae, Hesperosaurus, Huayangosaurinae, Jiangjunosaurus, Kentrosaurinae, Kentrurosaurinae, Lexovisaurus, Loricatosaurus, Mongolostegus, Priodontosaurus, Sauraechmodon, Scelidosaurinae, Siamodracon, Stegosaurinae, Stegosaurus, Wuerhosaurus mongoliensis
Subtaxa: Yingshanosaurus jichuanensis
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Yunchuan, Jichuan (Jurassic of China)
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