All articles tagged with #dacentrurus armatus
A nearly complete stegosaur skull from Spain, attributed to Dacentrurus armatus, reveals skull features that define a new Neostegosauria lineage and forces a major revision of stegosaur evolution, suggesting this group ranged across Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous.
A best-preserved European stegosaur skull (Dacentrurus armatus) from Spain provides new details on stegosaur skull anatomy and supports a new Neostegosauria concept, potentially reshaping how stegosaurs evolved and spread during the Jurassic.
Paleontologists in Teruel, Spain uncovered the most complete stegosaur skull in Europe, dating to the Late Jurassic and attributed to Dacentrurus armatus. The fossil, found at the Están de Colón site in Riodeva, preserves key skull bones and a neck vertebra, offering unprecedented insight into stegosaur anatomy, feeding, and evolution. The discovery supports a new evolutionary grouping, Neostegosauria, and the site has yielded hundreds of fossils across growth stages, reshaping understanding of dinosaur diversity in the region.
A newly discovered, exceptionally complete stegosaur skull from Spain (Dacentrurus armatus) is the most complete European stegosaur skull to date, revealing new skull anatomy and a differently angled supraoccipital bone. This prompts a revised stegosaur phylogeny with a new group, Neostegosauria, and reshapes ideas about global stegosaur evolution and distribution, including potential support for Isaberrysaura mollensis as a stegosaur and hints that some Asian stegosaurs persisted into the Early Cretaceous; the Riodeva site also promises more discoveries from the same adult and juvenile fossils.