Dinosaur
Kentrosaurus
The longest spines were at the end of the tail.
Hundreds of bones recovered in Tanzania helped reconstruct Kentrosaurus without a complete skeleton.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Kentrosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Stegosauridae
- Stegosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Tanzania
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Kentrosaurus
Hundreds of bones were recovered during expeditions to Tendaguru between 1909 and 1912. Although a complete skeleton is missing, the set allows us to reconstruct a good part of this relative of Stegosaurus.
The longest spines were at the end of the tail. Gathering this material allows us to compare parts that belonged to different individuals. Rebuilding depends on carefully putting the pieces together and recognizing what is still missing.
Stegosaurids carried bony plates and spikes along its backs and tails. The plates were not parts of the vertebrae; they were structures in the skin called osteoderms.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
The longest spines were at the end of the tail. Gathering this material allows us to compare parts that belonged to different individuals. Rebuilding depends on carefully putting the pieces together and recognizing what is still missing.
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- Kentrosaurus aethiopicus
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- Kentrosaurus
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- Stegosauridae
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- Living birds
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