Dinosaur
Tuojiangosaurus
It had pairs of pointed plates along its back.
Tuojiangosaurus had narrow plates on its back and four large spines at the end of its tail.
Three stages. One companion.
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Tuojiangosaurus 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
- China
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Tuojiangosaurus
This stegosaur measured about six and a half meters long. Pairs of narrow, pointed plates lined its back, and two pairs of spikes armed the end of its tail.
The arrangement of these structures can be compared with those of other stegosaurs. Its relatives did not all carry plates of the same shape or combine them in the same way.
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.Sources & text credits
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- Tuojiangosaurus multispinus
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- Tuojiangosaurus
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- Stegosauridae
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