Dinosaur
Stegouros
Stegouros had a tail quite unlike the tools carried by other familiar dinosaurs.
Stegouros had a tail quite unlike the tools carried by other familiar dinosaurs. Its low body and short legs led to an extraordinary tail, where several bony plates joined into a flattened structure. It was neither the rounded club of some ankylosaurs nor the spiked tail of a stegosaur.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Stegouros at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- It was a plant eater.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Parankylosauria
- Parankylosaurs
- Fossil locations
- Chile
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Stegouros
The nearly complete skeleton was found in southern Chile. Its preservation allows many parts of a single individual to be studied, revealing a combination of features that was previously poorly understood.
Stegouros belongs to a Southern Hemisphere branch of armored dinosaurs. Its tail is a reminder that evolution can produce very different ways to defend or interact, even among animals in the same broad group.
Stegouros belongs to a Southern Hemisphere branch of armored dinosaurs. Its tail is a reminder that evolution can produce very different ways to defend or interact, even among animals in the same broad group.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
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