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>>>
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