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North American Stegosaurs

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-7/14/16-The Stegosaurs of North America *now with revamped silhouettes  
before I write the description any further I would like to take this moment to look at hesperosaurus and say D'aaaawwwwwwwwww
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stenops: has fairly round plates, very 'vanilla' stego also the smallest stegosaurus species

ungulatus: small triangular plates, proportionally  taller at the hips, largest stegosaur, last 4 pairs of plates are mirrored, see :iconmattmart:'s post on dinogoss (and buy his books, they are good. very good) dinogoss.blogspot.com/2015/02/…

sulcatus:  largest plates in proportion to body size, furrowed. (I think that means the spikes packed allot of keratin due to the furrowed texture)
larger than stenops, shoulder spike, potentially a unique genus

alcovasaurus: giant thagomizer, 25% shorter tail, almost the size of stenops (thanks to Incinerox for that info)

hesperosaurus: the cutest widdle dwarph stego that has ever lived. also has sexual dimorphism in plates. (males have rounded plates, females have thinner plates


Disclaimer: I do not take credit for the skeletal references used as bases for the silhouettes I make.
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Evodolka's avatar
S.Sculatus?
never heard of it, and it has a shoulder spike, how do we know it's stegosaurus and not another stegosaur?