Stegosaurus
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Stegosaurus (meaning "roof-lizard") was a type of plant-eating dinosaur which lived in what is now western North America.
Quick Facts Stegosaurus Temporal range: Upper Jurassic 155 – 145 mya, Scientific classification ...
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Genus: | Stegosaurus Marsh, 1877 |
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Stegosaurus lived in the Upper Jurassic period around 155 to 145 million years ago. It is one of the most easily recognized dinosaurs, with its distinctive double row of kite-shaped plates on its back, and the long spikes on its tail. The armor was necessary as it lived with such meat-eaters as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus.