Ornithischia › Stegosauridae › Kentrosaurus
Kentrosaurus
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus
JurassicHerbivoreOrnithischianMedium
- Length 4.5 m
- Mass 1600 kg
Kentrosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic in Lindi Region of Tanzania. The type species is K. aethiopicus, named and described by German palaeontologist Edwin Hennig in 1915. Often thought to be a "primitive" member of the Stegosauria, several recent cladistic analyses find it as more derived than many other stegosaurs, and a close relative of Stegosaurus from the North American Morrison Formation within the Stegosauridae.
Attributes
- Length
- 4.5 m
- Mass
- 1600 kg
- Time range
- 161.5 - 143.1 Ma
- Size class
- Medium
- Region
- Tanzania
Sources
Facts are drawn from the Paleobiology Database and Wikipedia. Images are reconstructions, not photographs.
