Almost complete speciment of Stegosaurus at the NHM

Posted in   Uncategorized   on  August 20, 2015 by  Dinoman ,  0

What do we know about the lifestyle of this dinosaur and the environment it lived in?

This Stegosaurus individual lived about 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic, in a fairly harsh and arid environment. Plants like cycads, ferns and horsetails formed the carpet (and this dinosaur’s food), and there would have been occasional conifer trees. It would have looked very different from today as there were no flowering plants or any grasses at that time in Earth’s history.

Stegosaurus shared the land with a lot of other famous dinosaurs. Read more>>>

– See more at: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/stegosaurus-interview-dinosaur-expert.html#sthash.oMOFtrOx.dpuf

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gerald Davie is the Dinoman. He is a professional geologist with a passion for palaeontology and earth history.  When he isn't consulting, he spends his time travelling locally and abroad, and there is always a geological component to his trips.  He is the owner of the only Tyrannosaurus skeleton in the Southern Hemisphere, to be seen at the DinoZone Museum and Geo Centre.

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