Stegosaurus sulcatus

A picture published with the record for Stegosaurus sulcatus. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StegosaurusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 143.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrence155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155.3 Mya142.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Stegosaurus sulcatus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Morrison — 41.91°N, 105.96°W

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The named rock units Stegosaurus sulcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Stegosaurus sulcatus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Stegosaurus sulcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Stegosaurus sulcatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Stegosaurus sulcatus

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStegosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1887