- Scientific name
- Stegosaurus stenops
- Period
- Late Jurassic
- Length
- 9 m
- Height
- 4 m
- Weight
- 5.0 tonnes
- Diet
- Herbivore
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Late Jurassic
Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus stenops
Seventeen bony plates down its back and four spikes on its tail, an arrangement palaeontologists call a thagomizer. Stegosaurus browsed low vegetation across the Jurassic floodplains.
Did you know
The spikes on its tail are called a thagomizer.