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Stegosaurus sulcatus
Taxonomy
Stegosaurus sulcatus was named by Marsh (1887). Its type specimen is USNM 4937, an osteoderm, and it is a 3D body fossil. 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.
It was synonymized subjectively with Stegosaurus ungulatus by Hennig (1915); it was synonymized subjectively with Stegosaurus armatus by Kuhn (1964), Galton (1990) and Galton and Upchurch (2004); it was considered a nomen nudum by Maidment et al. (2008).
It was synonymized subjectively with Stegosaurus ungulatus by Hennig (1915); it was synonymized subjectively with Stegosaurus armatus by Kuhn (1964), Galton (1990) and Galton and Upchurch (2004); it was considered a nomen nudum by Maidment et al. (2008).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Marsh p. 415 figs. Pl. 8, fig. 4-6 |
| 1896 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Marsh p. 193 |
| 1901 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Nopcsa p. 215 |
| 1902 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Hay p. 496 |
| 1914 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Gilmore p. 109 figs. 18, 20-21 |
| 1916 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Mook p. 145 |
| 1930 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Hay p. 235 |
| 1982 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Galton p. 144 |
| 1990 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Bakker p. 2 |
| 1993 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Olshevsky and Ford |
| 2001 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Blows pp. 138-139 |
| 2010 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Galton p. 194 |
| 2013 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Xing et al. p. 62 |
| 2014 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Ulansky p. 6 |
| 2016 | Stegosaurus sulcatus Galton and Carpenter p. 186 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Stegosaurus sulcatus Marsh 1887
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995 | |||||
Age range: base of the Kimmeridgian to the top of the Tithonian or 157.30000 to 145.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Wyoming) | Stegosaurus sulcatus (type locality: 39253) |