Definition of Stegosauridae. Meaning of Stegosauridae. Synonyms of Stegosauridae

- defensive weapons. Later species, belonging to a subgroup called the Stegosauridae, became larger, and developed long hindlimbs that no longer allowed...
- of Stegosaurus from the North American Morrison Formation within the Stegosauridae. Fossils of K. aethiopicus have been found only in the Tendaguru Formation...
- majority of stegosaurian dinosaurs thus far recovered belong to the Stegosauridae, which lived in the later part of the Jur****ic and early Cretaceous...
- sheath of a stegosaurian back plate. Hesperosaurus was a member of the Stegosauridae, quadrupedal plant-eaters protected by vertical bony plates and spikes...
- preoccupied. In the twentieth century Dacentrurus was usually ****igned to the Stegosauridae. In 1957, Robert Hoffstetter thought that Dacentrurus was more derived...
- et al. (2024) recovered Thyreosaurus as dacentrurine member of the Stegosauridae, as the sister taxon to Dacentrurus. These species are in turn sister...
- former relationship, close to Hesperosaurus and Dacentrurus as basal in Stegosauridae. Wuerhosaurus was recovered in a different position by Escaso et al...
- †Huayangosauridae (small stegosaurs with flank osteoderms and tail clubs) †Stegosauridae (large stegosaurs) †Ankylosauria (scutes as primary armor) †Parankylosauria...
- of the tail, angled at approximately 45 degrees to the vertical. In stegosauridae, this spike arrangement has become affectionately known as the "thagomizer"...
- predators by generating high-speed strikes. Miragaia was placed in the Stegosauridae in 2009. Mateus and colleagues performed a phylogenetic analysis and...