Stegouros steɡuh-JƱƏROS
"roofed tail"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Stegouros 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (74.9–71.7 Mya)
- Place
- Gondwana · Chile
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.