Illustration of Dacentrurus armatus. Credit: Adrián Blázquez / Fundación Dinópolis
SciTechDaily has an article about a stegasaur skull discovered in Spain. Stegasaur skulls are rarely found due to the extreme fragility of their bone. This new speciec, Dacentrurus armatus, was found near Villar del Arzobispo Formation and is nearly complete. The rock formation dates to the late Jurassic about 150 million years ago. The research was published in the paper "New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria)" in the journal Vertebrate Zoology.
Paleontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis have made an exciting discovery. In a new study published in the journal Vertebrate Zoology, they describe a remarkable partial stegosaur skull unearthed in Riodeva, a town in Teruel, Spain. Along with this discovery, they introduce a new hypothesis that could change what we know about the evolutionary history of plated dinosaurs.
Stegosaurs were plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on all fours, instantly recognizable by the two rows of plates or spines lining their backs from neck to tail. The specimen examined in the study was carefully excavated by the Fundación Dinópolis team at the “Están de Colón” site.
