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Dacentrurus

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)38808https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38808
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Stegosauridae : Dacentrurus
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Ornithischia
-GenasauriaSereno 1986
-Thyreophora
-Stegosauria
familyStegosauridaeMarsh 1880
subfamilyDacentrurinae
genusDacentrurusLucas 1902
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauriastated without evidenceLucas, 1902
Dacentrurusgenussubjective synonym of Omosaurusstated without evidencevon Zittel, 1911
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated with evidenceHennig, 1915
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to StegosaurinaeimpliedRomer, 1956
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauriastated without evidenceDelair, 1960
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated with evidenceTatarinov, 1964
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated without evidenceKuhn, 1964
Dacentrurusgenussubjective synonym of PriodontosaurusimpliedRomer, 1966
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated without evidenceDelair, 1973
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to StegosauridaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated with evidenceGalton, 1990
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated without evidenceGalton, 1991
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated with evidenceSereno, 1998
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Dacentruridaestated without evidenceBlows, 2001
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated without evidenceCarpenter et al., 2001
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated with evidenceGalton and Upchurch, 2004
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated without evidenceMaidment et al., 2006
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated with evidenceMaidment et al., 2008
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated without evidenceNaish and Martill, 2008
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Dacentrurinaestated with evidenceMateus et al., 2009
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated without evidenceMateus and Milàn, 2010
Dacentrurusgenusbelongs to Dacentrurinaestated without evidenceUlansky, 2014
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance164 - 151 Ma
Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Ornithischia)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Ornithischia)
Dietherbivore (based on Ornithischia)
Reproductionoviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)
Ontogenyaccretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)
Primary Reference (PBDB)F. A. Lucas. 1902. Paleontological notes. The generic name Omosaurus. A new generic name for Stegosaurus marshi. Science, new series 16(402):435

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Dacentrurus armatus
species
listed (PBDB)13164 Ma
Middle Jurassic
130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1875Omosaurus Owen
1880Omosaurus Marsh p. 259
1882Omosaurus Quenstedt p. 188
1882Omosaurus Sauvage p. 35
1884Omosaurus Dollo p. 298
1884Omosaurus Marsh p. 68
1885Omosaurus Marsh p. 764
1887Omosaurus Hulke
1888Omosaurus Lydekker p. 177
1892Omosaurus Seeley
1893Omosaurus Winkler p. 104
1895Omosaurus Marsh
1896Omosaurus Marsh p. 242
1902Dacentrurus Lucas p. 435
1909Omosaurus Huene p. 17
1911Omosaurus von Zittel p. 294
1914Omosaurus Gilmore p. 101
1914Omosaurus Sauvage p. 255
1915Dacentrurus Hennig p. 11
1924Omosaurus Lull p. 242
1928Omosaurus Nopcsa p. 185
1934Omosaurus Chakravarti p. 78
1956Dacentrurus Romer p. 634
1957Omosaurus Hoffstetter p. 538
1958Omosaurus Hoffstetter and Brun pp. 72-73
1960Dacentrurus Delair p. 87
YearName and Author
1964Dacentrurus Kuhn p. 34
1964Dacentrurus Tatarinov p. 573
1970Omosaurus Swinton p. 241
1973Dacentrurus Delair p. 5
1975Dacentrurus Thulborn p. 134
1983Omosaurus Dong et al. p. 137
1985Dacentrurus Galton p. 213 figs. 2-14
1986Omosaurus Zhou p. 35
1988Dacentrurus Carroll
1990Dacentrurus Galton
1991Dacentrurus Galton pp. 317-318
1995Dacentrurus Casanovas-Cladellas et al. p. 282
1998Dacentrurus Sereno p. 67 fig. 5
1999Dacentrurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2001Dacentrurus Blows p. 137
2001Dacentrurus Carpenter et al. p. 73 fig. 3.14
2004Dacentrurus Galton and Upchurch p. 344
2006Dacentrurus Maidment et al. p. 951 fig. 8
2007Dacentrurus Escaso et al. p. 158
2008Dacentrurus Maidment et al. p. 390 fig. 11
2008Dacentrurus Naish and Martill p. 616
2009Dacentrurus Mateus et al.
2010Dacentrurus Mateus and Milàn p. 254
2013Dacentrurus Cobos and Gascó p. 18
2014Dacentrurus Ulansky p. 7

References

Lucas F. A. (1902) Paleontological notes. The generic name Omosaurus. A new generic name for Stegosaurus marshi, Science, new series 16 402, 435
Marsh O. C. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part III, American Journal of Science 19, 253-259
Sauvage H.-E. Recherches sur les reptiles trouvés dans le Gault de l'est du bassin de Paris [Research on the reptiles found in the Gault of the eastern Paris Basin], Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, série 3 2 4, 1-42
Marsh O. C. The classification and affinities of dinosaurian reptiles, Nature 31, 68-69
Hulke J. W. Note on some dinosaurian remains in the collection of A. Leeds, Esq, of Eyebury, Northamptonshire, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 43, 695-702
Lydekker R. , Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London, 1-309
Marsh O. C. On the affinities and classification of the dinosaurian reptiles, American Journal of Science 50 300, 483-498
Marsh O. C. The dinosaurs of North America, United States Geological Survey, 16th Annual Report, 1894-95 55, 133-244
Gilmore C. W. (1914) Osteology of the armored Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genus Stegosaurus, United States National Museum Bulletin 89, 1-136
Sauvage H.-E. (1914) Catalogue des Reptiles Jurassiques du Boulonnais [Catalogue of Jurassic reptiles from the Boulonnais], Bulletin de la société Academique de l'Arrondissement de Boulogne-sur-Mer 10, 253-264
Hennig E. (1915) , Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 9: Stegosauria, 1-16
Nopcsa B. F. (1928) The genera of reptiles, Palaeobiologica 1, 163-188
Chakravarti D. K. (1934) On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore, Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Society of India 6 3, 75-79
Romer A. S. (1956) , Osteology of the Reptiles, University of Chicago Press, 1-772
Hoffstetter R. (1957) Quelques observations sur les stégosaurinés [Some observations on stegosaurines], Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2e série 29 6, 537-547
Delair J. B. (1960) The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80, 52-90
Tatarinov L. P. (1964) Nadotryad Dinosauria. Dinozavry [Superorder Dinosauria. Dinosaurs], Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 12, 523-589
Swinton W. E. (1970) , The Dinosaurs, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1-331
Delair J. B. (1973) The dinosaurs of Wiltshire, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 68, 1-7
Thulborn R. A. (1975) Teeth of ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal, with description of a hypsilophodontid (Phyllodon henkeli gen. et sp. nov.) from the Guimarota lignite, Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22, 89-134
Dong Z., Zhou S., et al (1983) [Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan], Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 162 23, 1-136
Galton P. M. (1985) British plated dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Stegosauridae), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5 3, 211-254
Zhou S. (1986) De l'origine et de l'évolution systématique des Stegosauria à la lumière des fossiles connus [On the origin and systematic evolution of the Stegosauria in light of the known fossils], Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse, 31-38
Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Galton P. M. (1990) Stegosauria, The Dinosauria, D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, & H. Osmólska (editors), University of California Press, Berkeley, 435-455
Galton P. M. (1991) Postcranial remains of stegosaurian dinosaur Dacentrurus from Upper Jurassic of France and Portugal, Geologica et Palaeontologica 25, 299-327
Casanovas-Cladellas M. L., Santafé-Llopis J. V., et al (1995) Dacentrurus armatus (Stegosauria, Dinosauria) del Cretácico Inferior de Los Serranos (Valencia, España) [Dacentrurus armatus (Stegosauria, Dinosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Los Serranos (Valencia, Spain)], Revista Española de Paleontología 10 2, 273-283
Sereno P. C. (1998) A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210 1, 41-83
Sereno P. C. (1999) The evolution of dinosaurs, Science 284, 2137-2147
Blows W. T. (2001) Possible stegosaur dermal armor from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England, The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 130-140
Carpenter K., Miles C. A., et al (2001) New primitive stegosaur from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 55-75
Maidment S. C. R., Wei G., et al (2006) Re-description of the postcranial skeleton of the Middle Jurassic stegosaur Huayangosaurus taibaii, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 4, 944-956
Escaso F., Ortega F., et al (2007) Elementos postcraneales de Dacentrurus (Dinosauria: Stegosauria) del Jurásico Superior de Moçanfaneira (Torres Vedras, Portugal) [Postcranial elements of Dacentrurus (Dinosauria: Stegosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Moçanfaneira (Torres Vedras, Portugal)], In Cantera Paleontológica, Diputación Provincial de Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain, 157-172
Maidment S. C. R., Norman D. B., et al (2008) Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 4, 367-407 doi:10.1017/S1477201908002459
Naish D., Martill D. M. (2008) Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: Ornithischia, Journal of the Geological Society, London 165, 613-623
Mateus O., Maidment S. C. R., et al (2009) A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276, 1815-1821 doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1909
Mateus O., Milàn J. (2010) A diverse Upper Jurassic dinosaur ichnofauna from central-west Portugal, Lethaia 43, 245-257 doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00190.x
Cobos A., Gascó F. (2013) New vertebral remains of the stegosaurian dinosaur Dacentrurus from Riodeva (Teruel, Spain), Geogaceta 53, 17-20
Ulansky R. E. (2014) Dinosaurs classification. Basal Thyreophora & Stegosauria, Dinologia, 1-8
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