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Stegosaurs

The age of dinosaurs dinosaur, Loricatosaurus Loricatosaurus The flat, diamond-shaped
Dacentrurus

A medium-sized
plates were covered with a
lived in Jurassic England
tough layer of skin.
and France.

At 13 ft (4 m) long, Chialingosaurus
This dinosaur from
Huayangosaurus was China is one of the oldest
one of the smallest species of stegosaur.
stegosaurs. Huayangosaurus

The front legs
were shorter than the
back legs, so the head
was close to the ground.

With a double row of tall, pointed, bony parts of the world—the US, Europe, India,
plates running down its back and tail, China, and southern Africa. All stegosaurs were
Stegosaurus is one of the most instantly covered with plates and spikes along their backs,
recognizable dinosaurs. But it was just one and many, such as the extra-spiky Dacentrurus
of many similar stegosaurs that lived during the and Kentrosaurus, also had spikes sprouting
74 Jurassic and early Cretaceous Periods in various from their shoulders. These may have been used

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