Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Full reference: S. Sánchez-Fenollosa and A. Cobos. 2025. New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria). Vertebrate Zoology 75(2258):165-189
Parent taxon: Stegosauridae according to S. Sánchez-Fenollosa and A. Cobos 2025
Sister taxa: Changdusaurus, Chungkingosaurus, Huayangosaurinae, Kentrosaurinae, Kentrurosaurinae, Lexovisaurus, Mongolostegus, Paranthodon, Priodontosaurus, Sauraechmodon, Scelidosaurinae, Siamodracon, Tuojiangosaurus, Wuerhosaurus mongoliensis, Yingshanosaurus
Subtaxa: Dacentrurinae Stegosaurinae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (5 collections), France (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Utah)
• Jurassic of China (1), France (4), Morocco (2), Portugal (13), Spain (13), Tanzania (27), the United Kingdom (2), United States (82: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 152 collections including 163 occurrences