Stegouros
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Stegouros
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- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs
- Found in
- Chile
- Named by
- Soto-Acuña et al. 2021
Field notes
About Stegouros
Stegouros was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Stegouros, from Chile. Its fossils come from the Dorotea Formation. It was named by Soto-Acuña et al. in 2021.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Parankylosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Soto-Acuña, A. O. Vargas, and J. Kaluza, M. A. Leppe, J. F. Botelho, J. Palma-Liberona, C. Simon-Gutstein, R. A. Fernández, H. Ortiz, V. Milla, B. Aravena, L. M. E. Manríquez, J. Alarcón-Muñoz, J. Pino, C. Trevisan, H. Mansilla, L. Hinojosa, V. Muñoz-Walther, D. Rubilar-Rogers . 2021. Bizarre tail weaponry in a transitional ankylosaur from subantarctic Chile. Nature 600:259-263