Stegouros
Stegouros elengassen
Stegouros (, meaning "roofed tail") is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Dorotea Formation of southern Chile. The genus contains a single species, Stegouros elengassen, known from a semi-articulated, near-complete skeleton. Stegouros is a member of the Parankylosauria, a clade of small Gondwanan armored dinosaurs. It is characterized by its small body size and distinct arrangement of fused osteoderms forming a macuahuitl-like tail weapon.
- Family
- Ankylosauria incertae sedis
- Order
- Ornithischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (74.0–71.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- 2.0–2.5 m
- Weight
- 150–200 kg
- Type locality
- Dorotea Formation, Magallanes, Chile
- Holotype
- CPAP 200
- PBDB
- txn:446235