Stegosaurus sulcatus Marsh 1887 (ornithischian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1887. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part IX. The skull and dermal armor of Stegosaurus. American Journal of Science 34:413-417

Belongs to Stegosaurus according to P. M. Galton 2010

See also Bakker 1990, Blows 2001, Galton 1982, Galton 1990, Galton and Carpenter 2016, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Gilmore 1914, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hennig 1915, Kuhn 1964, Maidment et al. 2008, Marsh 1887, Marsh 1896, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Olshevsky and Ford 1993, Ulansky 2014, Ulansky 2014 and Xing et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Stegosaurus affinis, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus armatus, Stegosaurus duplex, Stegosaurus stenops, Stegosaurus ungulatus, Wuerhosaurus homheni, Diracodon laticeps, Hypsirophus seeleyanus, Hypsirophus discurus

Type specimen: USNM 4937, an osteoderm. Its type locality is Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian crevasse splay sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM)

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