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.
The rocks that held the fossil are part of the Villar del Arzobispo Formation, dating back about 150 million years to the Late Jurassic period. The skull is the most complete stegosaur skull ever found in Europe and has been identified as belonging to Dacentrurus armatus, one of the continent’s iconic dinosaur species.
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