Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig 1915 (ornithischian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Alternative combinations: Kentrorosaurus aethiopicus, Kentrosaurus aethiopus, Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus

Full reference: E. Hennig. 1915. Kentrosaurus aethiopicus der Stegosauride des Tendaguru [Kentrosaurus aethiopicus the stegosaurid from Tendaguru]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1915:219-247

Belongs to Kentrosaurus according to H. Mallison 2011

See also Barrett and Maidment 2011, Bonaparte 1986, Borinder et al. 2016, Carpenter 2010, Carpenter et al. 2001, Charig 1967, Chinsamy 1997, Cobos and Gascó 2013, Costa and Mateus 2019, Fischer 1970, Furon 1963, Galton 1982, Galton 1988, Galton 1990, Galton and Carpenter 2016, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Hennig 1915, Hennig 1915, Hennig 1916, Hennig 1916, Hennig 1925, Hübner and Rauhut 2007, Janensch 1927, Kuhn 1964, Le Loeuff et al. 2012, Maidment 2010, Maidment et al. 2008, Mateus 2006, Meyer and Thüring 2003, Müller and Garcia 2021, Olshevsky and Ford 1993, Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2013, Rauhut 2011, Saitta 2015, Schwarz et al. 2023, Swinton 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Ulansky 2014, Ulansky 2014 and Young 1944

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MB.R.4800.1–37, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Tendaguru quarry St, which is in a Kimmeridgian estuary/bay marl in the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Tanzania (26 collections)

Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence

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