#stegouros

[dynasoar5]

would a stegouros wear a barretina like this? like this? or like this?

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Some time ago we had the #PaleoZoo challenge on Discord, sponsored by Prehistoric Kingdom.

Goal was the creation of realistic zoo habitats that could hause extinct creatures. As examples I created a bunch of them over the course of a weekend.

Part three. A Shringasaurus temple, Archaeotherium getting brushed, Stegouros burrow, Plateosaurus hatchery, Wakaleo enclosure, Eryops colony, Lystrosaurus lookout, Giganthopithecus canopy walk, Australoraptor waterfalls, Numudotherium pond and the Erlikosaurus canyon.

[makairodonx]

71 million years ago as the sun sets before the subantarctic forests of what is now the Dorotea Formation of Chile, a pair of Gonkoken nanoi search the woods for flowers and leaves to eat from bushes while a Stegouros elengassen munches on a couple of ferns in the background.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

stegouros is my favorite dino puppy do you have a favorite dino puppy?

I think I need the term "dino puppy" defined before I know my answer

[scolop98]

VOTE STEGOUROS FOR DINOSAUR MARCH MADNESS 2023

art by Gabriel Ugueto

This is admittedly a really tough choice, but what is March Madness season for if not throwing your entire soul into campaigning against a random animal species for petty reasons? (disclaimer: this is from the guy who slandered Vaderlimulus for almost the entirety of Triassic March Madness before realizing that it never actually beat Atopodentatus in a poll)

I’ll try to keep this short since my previous Berthasaura propoganda post took a lot out of me and I actually respect Spicomellus as a contender /hj

A VOTE FOR STEGOUROS IS A VOTE FOR:

- an entirely new basal clade of ankylosaurs, only described less than two years ago, which survived until the Maastrichtian!

- the macuahuitl, which I believe is the first new type of thyreophoran tail-weaponry discovered in a long time

- asymmetrical, vaguely hourglass shaped teeth. what was it doing with those teeth? something cool, no doubt; I am a sucker for phylogenetic trends in feeding ecology 

- was apparently adapted for cursoriality, including with hoof-shaped claws? I didn’t even know thyreophorans could do that but yes please, all of that. Hello, new hyperfixation rabbithole

- south america! as far as I’m concerned, South American ecology has been Fabulous roughly since the Cretaceous and hasn’t stopped. Stegouros lived alongside unenlagiines! that’s really cool!

- a Little Guy™️. exhibit A, from wikipedia:

what a perfectly sized little guy. so precious and (comparatively) small, and this was a full-grown adult thyreophoran from the non-European Maastrichtian! As far as I know, Stegouros has no right to be that small. If it does, please tell me, as it will only make me love it more

- something known from a mostly-complete skeleton! so we actually have a good idea of what it looks like!

As much as I love Spicomellus for being so extra (osteoderms attached directly to the rib, first known african ankylosaur, earliest known ankylosaur, lived alongside a Stegosaur) it’s only known from a single rib bone. It is, admittedly, a really cool rib bone, but Stegouros also lots of really cool bones! And they all belong to the same skeleton! Spicomellus may come with some really interesting biogeography and ankylosaur evolution facts, but so does Stegouros! And Stegouros objectively has more neat anatomy than Spicomellus does, no matter how you slice it. Does Spicomellus really have anything to offer that Stegouros can’t offer just as well, if not better?

Vote Stegouros for the only remaining Cool Ankylosaur™️ with a remotely complete skeleton. For the only remaining definitely-a-thyreophoran with a remotely complete Skelton, for that matter.

@a-dinosaur-a-day

[verysuspiciouslizards]

Painted a stegouros figure (bought from kayakasaurus) using my leopard gecko Cheeto as a color and pattern reference. I haven't gotten to do a dino figure re/paint in so long it was so nice to just chill out with music and paint again. I have a few other figures I can paint but they have serious seems going on and I keep putting off filling them :/ maybe 1 day.

[raventroll80]

UPDATE

it’s done!!

I’m pretty happy with how it came out, now that it’s done I realize that it looks a lot like the one from Kayakasaurus’ video (they’re also the person I bought the minis from) but I’m not complaining.

Hope the next one turns out just as good!

[coelophysls]

Mr.Stegouros

he is happy:) hope you’re happy too!

[tiutale]

Elrohir glanced up smiling as his brave little stegouros hatchling got a sip from the small waterfall feeding rhe lake. Glorfindel balanced on the rocks near it watching the water carefully.

Glorfindel grinned as his sharp gaze caught the nearly camoflauged visage of the platypus as it swam swiftly to him. If one wasnt looking they would think it some wood caught in a current. Bending down slowly so as not to startle the hatching near him, he grabbed the brooch he tossed into the water.

"Very good little one! Your gaze has grown sharper and your speed more swift!"

The little platypus made a sosft pleased sound as the elf gave it a head pat. Unable to contain itself its tail slapped the water several times in its pleasure.

Elrohir winced looking to his hatchling who had been cautiously sniffing a frog on the rock. Honking in startled fear at the sound of the tsil slap it turned to run back to its elf.

Unfortunately it's tail swung wide smacking the back of Glorfindel's legs as he bent over the water. Elrohir watched as his uncle squeaked in a most unelven fashion and fell head first into the pond. He laughed as he lifted his cloak for his hatchling to scurry under shaking his head and offering soft reassurances.

The platchling dove down avoiding the elf landing on it, but quickly swam up beaking the golden mess of hair and grabbing a small chunk trying to drag him back to the rocks. Am save!!!!!!!!

[maaxorus]

Gonna have to go with Stegouros and Acrocanthosaurus. One is a hug-sized ankylosaur with a dope tail club and the other is a big ol' theropod with a funky ridge.

i know i went for the more obvious/Basic choices so please expound in the tags/replies!! if there's a story or reason to your choice, tell us more!!

i was always a triceratops fan. i think it had something to do with the land before time.

[godzilla-and-aang-monsters]

Cachuguicha

Altura: 160 metros (sin contar el cuerno)

Longitud: 560 metros

Peso: 76,000 toneladas

Primer Avistamiento: Nuakchot [Tierra: Teratoverso]

Controles: Tierra Control [Excavación, Embestida Petrea] Fuego Control [Rayo Incandescente]

Guarida: Nuakchot [Tierra: Teratoverso] Monte Makapu [Avatarverso]

Aspecto: Pachyrhinosaurus + Elasmotherium (cuernos) + Stegouros

Aliados:

Humanos: Aang, Katara, Soka, Iroh, Zuko, Toph

Kaijus y otras bestias: Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra, Rodan, Anguirus

Enemigos:

Humanos: Ozai y Azula

Kaijus y otras bestias: Kasai Rex

[darksilvania]

CLUBSIDIAN (Rock) The obsidian bladed pokemon

CLUBSIDIAN (Club/Obsidian) Its body naturally produces obsidian shard that are as sharp as knives. Ancient civilizations would pick up this shards when they fell from their bodies and use them to make their tools and weapons., and when the pokemon died, they would use their tails and backs as clubs and shields.

CLUBSIDIAN is based on the Stegouros Elengassen, a recently discovered armored dinosaur from the order Ankylosauria , but instead of a club at the and of its tail it had a broad flat bladed tail that reminded me of the Macuahuitl, an aztec weapon that consisted of a large wooden club lined with obsidian blades, so I mixed both

[skyland2703]

One time, after Javi was out all day, he came home to find Waffles sleeping on the couch and Amelia duct taped to the wall. Waffles also somehow managed to bite Amelia's right big toe off and nobody knows why or how he did that. Waffles only lets them fuck once a month. he's trying to curb Amelia's habits so he can have more Momelia time. Waffles is weirdly smart. he once threw himself at a padlock, and somehow managed to get the code correct and open the door. FFTD!Waffles is the communal therapy animal and little by little he gets the old Javi back.

I like the “he lets them fuck once a month” thing tho XD they’re on schedule and they just look forward to that day SO much. It’s 24 waffles-free hours and just. Bliss. For the babies 😂😭

MOMELIA!!! YES!!! I think waffles is more attached to Amelia, and Javi is more attached to waffles. But also they being Waffles’s adopted parents is absolutely ADORABLE. And despite what you think Amelia would be a pretty good mama and waffles loves having her around UwU

But also that duct tape incident. OUCH?????

…Tell me More about the FFTD idea…

[1dinodaily]

12/9/22 Stegouros

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Round Two: Stegouros vs Spicomellus

Stegouros elengassen

Artwork by Luis Enrique Pérez López, written by @zygodactylus

Name Meaning: Armored Creature with a Roofed Tail

Time: 74.9 to 71.7 million years ago (Campanian to Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous) 

Location: Dorotea Formation, Patagonia, Chile 

South America is just where the nonavian dinosaur party is happening these days! Stegouros is another recently described species from this continent, and another weird one - it was an Ankylosaur, but not a Nodosaur or an Ankylosaurid, and more to the point, instead of a tail club it had a series of vertebrae enclosed in osteoderms, in a shape that looked a lot like a macuahuitl - the tail was also very short, shorter than any other Thyreophoran, with flattened vertebrae coming together to form the strange and distinctive shape (similar short vertebrae are known from its relative, Antarctopelta). At around 2 meters long, it was very small for an Ankylosaur, though it had a head that was quite large for its body. It also had inward curving teeth, making them look vaguely hourglass-shaped, though they were also asymmetrical. It had many typical ankylosaur traits, but also some stegosaurian ones such as hollow sides to their vertebrae. Overall, it was very similar in proportions and appearance to Antarctopelta, indicating Antarctopelta may have looked more like Stegouros than previously thought. It had limb bones similar to cursorial Ankylosaurs, indicating Stegouros itself was a fast and efficient mover; and it even had claws shaped like hooves which may have enabled even more efficient running and locomotion. So, yeah. A short big headed ankylosaur built for running with a freaking ax on its tail. That’s normal! Living in the Dorotea Formation, Stegouros probably lived near the coast, alongside different sorts of mammals, fish, bivalves, amphibians, plesiosaurs, turtles, and unnamed dinosaurs such as opposite birds, megaraptors, Unenlagiines, and possible titanosaurs. 

Spicomellus afer

Artwork by @i-draws-dinosaurs, written by @zygodactylus

Name Meaning: African Collar of Spikes 

Time: 168 to 164 million years ago (Bathonian to Callovian stages of the Middle Jurassic) 

Location: Third Subunit, El Mers Group, Fès-Meknès, Morocco 

Spicomellus is the oldest known Ankylosaur, and also the first described Ankylosaur from North Africa! But that isn’t even the weirdest thing about it! Spicomellus had dermal spikes, fused to the bone, forming a collar (for which it was named) around its neck. Given that the spike were fused to the underlying bone - something no other ankylosaur does - it is probable that it wouldn’t have had a particularly flexible neck, or an easy time moving in general if the pattern continued throughout the body. It probably would have been around 3 meter long at the most, similar in size to other ankylosaurs from the Middle Jurassic. Coming from the El Mers Group, i tlived alongside Cetiosaurus, the stegosaur Adratiklit, megalosaurs, and teleosaurids. Spicomellus adds to a growing diversity of Jurassic Ankylosaurs, showing how Ankylosaurs and Stegosaurs lived alongside each other for a large period of time (the Middle and Late Jurassic epochs) and that the extinction of the Stegosaurs must have been due to a different, unrelated factor.

[quark-nova]

Silesaurus. So now "is it a dinosaur or no?" turns into an actual scientific debate

Some of yall will be like "oh whats your favorite dinasaur? Mine's ___" and then name anything but a dinosaur