Stegouros steɡuh-JƱƏROS
"roofed tail"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Stegouros 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (74.9–71.7 Mya)
- Place
- Gondwana · Chile
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Stegouros (, meaning “roofed tail”) is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Dorotea Formation of southern Chile. The genus contains a single species, Stegouros elengassen, known from a semi-articulated, near-complete skeleton. Stegouros is a member of the Parankylosauria, a clade of small Gondwanan armored dinosaurs. It is characterized by its small body size and distinct arrangement of fused osteoderms forming a macuahuitl-like tail weapon.
What we know
- Named by Soto-Acuña et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in Gondwana and Chile.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Stegouros — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.