Stegosaur dinosaur
Stegosaurus
This is Stegosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur from the Late Jurassic.
Look at the two rows of plates along its back. Do they look like a line of little hills?
Explore it in the 3D museum →
Meet this animal
- When it lived
- Late Jurassic
- Fossil discovery regions
- western North America
- Size
- 6.5–9 metres
- Diet
- Plant-eater
- Classification
- Stegosaur dinosaur
Stegosaurus belonged to the stegosaurs, a branch of the ornithischian dinosaurs. The bony plates along its back and the spikes at the end of its tail are its easiest features to recognise.
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