Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Alternative combination: Stegosaurus homheni
Full reference: Z. Dong. 1973. [Dinosaurs from Wuerho]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica 11:45-52
Belongs to Wuerhosaurus according to K. Carpenter 2010
See also Borinder et al. 2016, Carpenter et al. 2001, Chao 1980, Costa and Mateus 2019, Dong 1973, Dong 1990, Dong 1992, Dong 1994, Dong 1994, Dong 2001, Galton 1981, Galton 1990, Galton and Carpenter 2016, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Li et al. 2020, Li et al. 1986, Maidment 2010, Maidment et al. 2008, Maidment et al. 2020, Manitkoon et al. 2023, Mateus et al. 2009, Olshevsky and Ford 1993, Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2003, Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2013, Qi et al. 1986, Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo 2003, Shen and Mateer 1992, Tumanova and Alifanov 2018, Ulansky 2014, Ulansky 2014, Ulansky 2014, Wings et al. 2007, Xing et al. 2011, Xing et al. 2013, Xing et al. 2020, Xing et al. 2021 and Zhao 1986
Sister taxa: Stegosaurus affinis, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus duplex, Stegosaurus stenops, Stegosaurus sulcatus, Stegosaurus ungulatus, Hypsirophus discurus, Hypsirophus seeleyanus, Diracodon laticeps
Type specimen: IVPP V.4006, a skeleton. Its type locality is Wuerho, IVPP site 64043, which is in an Aptian/Albian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Lianmuqin Formation of China.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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