Kentrosaurus Was a Stegosaur with Plates and Spikes along Its Body So named in Greek as the “spiked lizard,” the Kentrosaurus (pronounced ken-tro-SOAR-us) lives up to its name by featuring some startlingly sharp spikey protrusions as well as some hard, flat plates from its body. This dinosaur was strictly a herbivore that moved around slowly […]
Thyreophora
Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus is a Stegosaurid from the Late Jurassic Era Stegosaurus, pronounced STEG-o-SAWR-us, was named by Othniel Marsh in 1877. The name means “roof lizard” or “plated lizard” after the distinctive plates sticking out of it’s back. It is an armored stegosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic era about 150 to 155 million years […]
Ankylosaurus
Ankylosaurus is a Tank Sized Cretaceous Herbivore Ankylosaurus is a late cretaceous period herbivore known for its heavy body armor and huge tail club. This tank sized creature may have fed on vegetation but it posed plenty of threat to even the most vicious of carnivores. Below we will take a look at this […]