Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Alternative combinations: Hypsirhophus discurus, Stegosaurus discurus
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1878. Descriptions of new extinct Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary and Dakota Formations. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(2):379-396
Belongs to Hypsirophus according to P. M. Galton 2010
See also Carpenter et al. 2001, Cope 1878, Cope 1878, Cope 1878, Galton 1990, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hennig 1915, Kuhn 1964, Mateus 2006, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Osborn and Mook 1919 and Ulansky 2014
Sister taxa: Stegosaurus affinis, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus duplex, Stegosaurus stenops, Stegosaurus sulcatus, Stegosaurus ungulatus, Hypsirophus seeleyanus, Diracodon laticeps, Wuerhosaurus homheni
Type specimen: AMNH 5731. Its type locality is Cope Quarry III, Cope's Nipple, which is in a Tithonian dry floodplain mudstone in the Morrison Formation of Colorado.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Cope Quarry III, Cope's Nipple
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