stegosaur


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steg·o·saur

 (stĕg′ə-sôr′)
n.
1. See stegosaurian.
2. See stegosaurus.
[From New Latin Stegosaurus, genus name; see stegosaurus.]

stegosaur

(ˈstɛɡəˌsɔː) ,

stegosaurus

or

stegosaurian

n
(Palaeontology) any quadrupedal herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur of the suborder Stegosauria, esp any of the genus Stegosaurus, of Jurassic and early Cretaceous times, having an armour of bony plates
[C19: from Greek stegos roof + -saur]

steg•o•saur

(ˈstɛg əˌsɔr)

n.
any plant-eating dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous family Stegosauridae, having bony plates along the back.
[1900–05; < New Latin Stegosaurus (1877), genus name < Greek stégo(s) roof + saûros -saur]
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.stegosaur - herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weaponstegosaur - herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon
Stegosaur stenops, stegosaurus
armored dinosaur - dinosaurs having bony armour
genus Stegosaurus - quadrupedal armored herbivore of the Jurassic and Cretaceous
Translations
stégosaure
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Remains of a stegosaur, a dinosaur made famous through the Jurassic Park films, were studied by a team from the Natural History Museum and belong to a new genus which walked the earth around 168 million years ago.
New species of stegosaurus discovered in Morocco is oldest dinosaur of its kind; The remains have been dated back to the mid-Jurassic period
Rabat Paleontologists from the UK's National History Museum, in collaboration with their Moroccan counterparts, have discovered a new species of stegosaurian dinosaur.Not only is it the oldest definite stegosaur ever found, estimated to be 168 million years old, but it is also the first stegosaur to be found in North Africa.
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They dug into the hillside and uncovered a few tail vertebrae and fragments of a tail spike of a stegosaur. The next day, they unearthed more tail vertebrae and some leg bones.
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Its partial skeleton includes the only known skull remains from any European stegosaur that had a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon.
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However, a few participants roaming the hills about 150 m away have found some fragments of bone, tracked them back to their hillside source, and dug out what appear to be a few tail vertebrae and fragments of a spike from a stegosaur.
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The University Of Glasgow holds the most complete Carboniferous (330 million years old) shark in the world, whose remains were found in Bearsden, while Staffin Museum on the Isle of Skye holds the world's oldest stegosaur fossil, said to be 175 million years old.
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