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How were the Stegosaurus' fossils discovered?

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Stegosaurus measured up to 26-30 feet long (8-9 m), about 9 feet tall (2.75 m), and weighed about 1-2 tons, but its small brain was the size of a walnut ... read more

Despite this fact fossils of the Stegosaurus have been located in western North America – in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, in Western Europe, in southern India, in China and in southern Africa! The first of the Stegosaurus fossils discovered was found in 1876 in Colorado by M.P. Felch and was named by Othniel C. Marsh in 1877. read more

The"type fossil" of Stegosaurus, discovered in Colorado's stretch of the Morrison Formation, was named in 1877 by the famous paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh. Marsh was originally under the impression that he was dealing with a gigantic prehistoric turtle (not the first paleontological blunder he ever made) and he thought the scattered plates of his"roof lizard" lay flat along its back. read more

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