Species
Valid Extinct

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

(Hennig 1915)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
26
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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Kentrosaurus Genus
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Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Species
Fossil sites 26 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇹🇿 Tanzania
26
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
23
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
2
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
E. Hennig. 1915. Kentrosaurus aethiopicus der Stegosauride des Tendaguru [Kentrosaurus aethiopicus the stegosaurid from Tendaguru]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1915:219-247
Bibliography (4)
W.-D. Heinrich. 1999. The taphonomy of dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) based on field sketches of the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe 28:25-61 DOI ↗
E. Hennig. 1936. Ein dentale con Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus Hennig [A dentary of Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus Hennig]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 2(1):309-312
E. Hennig. 1925. Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus. Die Stegosaurier-Funde vom Tendaguru, Deutsch-Ostafrika [Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus. The stegosaur discovery from Tendaguru, German East Africa]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 1(2):101-254
E. Hennig. 1915. Kentrosaurus aethiopicus der Stegosauride des Tendaguru [Kentrosaurus aethiopicus the stegosaurid from Tendaguru]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1915:219-247