Species
Valid Extinct

Dacentrurus armatus

(Marsh 1877)

No Wikipedia summary available.

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
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Parapredentata Unranked clade
Saphornithischia Unranked clade
Prionodontia Unranked clade
Genasauria Unranked clade
Thyreophora Unranked clade
Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
Eurypoda Unranked clade
Stegosauria Unranked clade
Stegosauridae Family
Neostegosauria Unranked clade
Dacentrurinae Subfamily
Dacentrurus Genus
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 ↗