Stegouros elengassen

† Stegouros elengassen is a Late Cretaceous ankylosaur from the Dorotea Formation of Chile, remarkable for its frond-like tail weapon formed by fused osteoderms. This unique structure represents a convergent analogy to the ankylosaur tail club.

Diet & Feeding

Herbivore

Stegouros elengassen was a plant-eating dinosaur. Herbivores typically fed on ferns, cycads, conifers, and other vegetation available during their era. Many herbivorous dinosaurs developed specialized teeth and digestive systems for processing tough plant material.

Time Period

Cretaceous Late Mesozoic Era

Stegouros elengassen lived during the Cretaceous Late period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 100,5 to 66,0 million years ago.

La era final de los dinosaurios, con especies icónicas como Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops y Velociraptor. Los dinosaurios alcanzaron su máxima diversidad antes de que el catastrófico impacto de un asteroide en el cráter Chicxulub pusiera fin a la Era Mesozoica.