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Stegosauridae

Miragaia mi-RA-gaia

Generic stegosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Miragaia 7 m (23 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic stegosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Miragaia
Length
7 m (23 ft)
Period
Late Jurassic (152.2–143.1 Mya)
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Stegosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosaurus and close relatives.

Miragaia is a stegosauridae known from the Jurassic period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.

What we know

  • Originally named by Mateus et al. 2009.