Stegosauridae
family · Marsh 1880 · accepted · extinct
49 descendant taxa · 192 fossil sites · 29 formations · 14 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Cretaceous
174.7–93.9 million years ago
Found where
14 countries
29 rock formations
Fossil record
192 sites
75 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 81 million years, from 174.7 to 93.9 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 93.9 million years old — that is roughly 313 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Stegosauridae was named in 1880 (Marsh 1880) — 146 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 14 countries and 29 named rock formations.
- 75 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 49 named taxa, including 23 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).