Alternative spellings: Stegosauri, Stegosauri
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1877. A new order of extinct Reptilia (Stegosauria) from the Jurassic of the Rocky Mountains. American Journal of Science and Arts 14:513-514
Parent taxon: Thyreophora according to P.-E. Dieudonné et al. 2020
See also Bakker 1986, Bakker and Galton 1974, Baur 1887, Benton 1979, Benton 1990, Bonaparte 1978, Buchholz 2002, Butler et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Charig 1967, Chure et al. 2006, Delair 1960, Delair 1973, Dollo 1884, Dollo 1885, Gadow 1897, Gadow 1898, Gadow 1901, Galton 1990, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Han et al. 2012, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hennig 1915, Huene 1954, Krebs 1974, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1964, Kuhn 1966, Lapparent 1947, Lull 1912, Lull 1915, Lull 1921, Lull 1924, Lydekker 1885, Lydekker 1888, Maidment et al. 2008, Maidment et al. 2006, Marsh 1877, Marsh 1881, Marsh 1882, Marsh 1884, Marsh 1885, Marsh 1894, Marsh 1895, Marsh 1896, Maryanska and Osmólska 1985, Matthew 1915, McGinnis 1982, McIntosh 1981, Norman et al. 2004, Ostrom 1980, Parsch 1963, Perrier 1928, Quenstedt 1882, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Roxo 1937, Russell 1984, Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2024, Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007, Sereno 1986, Sereno 1998, Sereno 1999, Swinton 1934, Swinton 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Thulborn 1971, Ulansky 2014, Van Den Broeck 1900, Weishampel 2004, Winkler 1893, Woodward 1898, Zafaty et al. 2024 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxa: Andhrasaurus, Ankylosauria, Bienosaurus, Bienosaurus lufengensis, Emausaurus, Jakapil, Lusitanosaurus, Lusitanosaurus liasicus, Omosaurus hastiger, Peishansaurus, Scelidosauria, Scelidosauridae, Scelidosaurus, Scelidosaurus arizonensis, Scutellosaurus, Sinopeltosaurus, Stegosaurides, Stegosauromorpha, Tatisaurus, Taveirosaurus, Thyreophoroidea, Yuxisaurus
Subtaxa: Adratiklit Amargastegos Baiyinosaurus Bashanosaurus Chialingosaurus Chialingosaurus kuani Craterosaurus Deltapodus Eoplophysis Euscelosaurus Ferganastegos Garbina Huayangosauridae Huayangosaurus Isaberrysaura Kentrosaurus Lexovisaurus durobrivensis Luluichnus Monkonosaurus Omosaurus leedsi Paranthodon Regnosaurus Rigalitidae Saldamosaurus Stegopodus Stegosauridae Tuojiangosaurus Wuerhosaurus ordosensis Yanbeilong
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (3 collections), Australia (7), Brazil (1), Chile (1), China (10), France (2), India (2), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Laos (1), Mongolia (1), Niger (2), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (4), South Africa (1), Spain (14), the United Kingdom (4), United States (3: Utah)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bolivia (1), China (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), Thailand (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (2), Australia (1), China (20), France (7), Germany (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), Morocco (3), Poland (1), Portugal (20), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (29), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (27), the United Kingdom (16), United States (89: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 286 collections including 309 occurrences