Species
Valid Extinct

Dacentrurus armatus

(Marsh 1877)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
13
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Parapredentata Unranked clade
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Saphornithischia Unranked clade
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Prionodontia Unranked clade
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Genasauria Unranked clade
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Thyreophora Unranked clade
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
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Eurypoda Unranked clade
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Stegosauria Unranked clade
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Stegosauridae Family
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Neostegosauria Unranked clade
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Dacentrurinae Subfamily
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Dacentrurus Genus
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Dacentrurus armatus Species
Fossil sites 13 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
7
🇵🇹 Portugal
5
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
Freixial
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
10
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
3
Synonyms (1)
Miragaia longicollum subjective synonym of Dacentrurus armatus
Bibliography
Original description
O. C. Marsh. 1877. A new order of extinct Reptilia (Stegosauria) from the Jurassic of the Rocky Mountains. American Journal of Science and Arts 14:513-514 DOI ↗
Bibliography (10)
S. Sánchez-Fenollosa and A. Cobos. 2025. New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria). Vertebrate Zoology 75(2258):165-189 DOI ↗
F. Costa and O. Mateus. 2019. Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): a new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America. PLoS One 14(11):e0224263:1-124 DOI ↗
A. Cobos, R. Royo-Torres, and L. Alcalá. 2014. Nuevos restos fósiles del estegosaurio Dacentrurus en el yacimiento Barrihonda-El Humero de Riodeva (Teruel, España) [New fossil remains of the stegosaur Dacentrurus in the Barrihondo-El Humero locality of Riodeva (Teruel, Spain)]. XXX Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología. ¡Fundamental! 24:47-49
A. Cobos and F. Gascó. 2013. New vertebral remains of the stegosaurian dinosaur Dacentrurus from Riodeva (Teruel, Spain). Geogaceta 53:17-20
J. Company, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2010. New stegosaurian (Ornithischia, Thyreophora) remains from Jurassic-Cretaceous transition beds of Valencia province (Southwestern Iberian Range, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):243-252 DOI ↗
O. Mateus, S. C. R. Maidment, and N. A. Christiansen. 2009. A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276:1815-1821 DOI ↗
F. Escaso, F. Ortega, and P. Dantas, E. Malafaia, B. Silva, J. L. Sanz. 2007. Elementos postcraneales de Dacentrurus (Dinosauria: Stegosauria) del Jurásico Superior de Moçanfaneira (Torres Vedras, Portugal) [Postcranial elements of Dacentrurus (Dinosauria: Stegosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Moçanfaneira (Torres Vedras, Portugal)]. In Cantera Paleontológica, Diputación Provincial de Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain
J. L. Sanz. 2000. Yacimientos ibéricos de dinosaurios [Iberian dinosaur localities]. Dinosaurios: Los Señores del Pasado [Dinosaurs: The Lords of the Land]
A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal [The dinosaurs of Portugal]. Mémoires des Services Géologiques du Portugal, nouvelle série 2:1-63
R. Owen. 1875. Monographs on the fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part II. (Genera Bothriospondylus, Cetiosaurus, Omosaurus). 29:15-93 DOI ↗