Reptilia - Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Alternative combination: Stegosaurus mjosi
Full reference: K. Carpenter, C. A. Miles, and K. Cloward. 2001. New primitive stegosaur from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming. The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 55-75
Belongs to Hesperosaurus according to S. C. R. Maidment et al. 2018
See also Billon-Bruyat et al. 2010, Borinder et al. 2016, Breeden et al. 2021, Carpenter 2010, Carpenter et al. 2001, Christiansen and Tschopp 2010, Chure et al. 2006, Costa and Mateus 2019, Galiano and Albersdörfer 2010, Galiano and Albersdörfer 2010, Galton 2007, Galton 2010, Galton and Ayyasami 2017, Galton and Carpenter 2016, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Maidment 2010, Maidment et al. 2008, Mateus 2006, Mateus et al. 2009, Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2013, Saitta 2015, Tumanova and Alifanov 2018, Ulansky 2014, Ulansky 2014 and Ulansky 2014
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: HMNS 14 (formerly HMNH 001), a skeleton. Its type locality is Buffalo Quarry, Smith Ranch, which is in a Kimmeridgian terrestrial sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (6: Montana, Wyoming collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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