Geobulletin alpha

Source info:

Author:	Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D.
Date:	2015-04-23 14:28:00
Blog:	Palaeoblog
URL:	http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/sexual-dimorphism-in-stegosaurus.html

Summary:

Evidence for Sexual Dimorphism in the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus mjosi (Ornithischia, Stegosauria) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western USA.. 2015. PLoS ONE Stegosaurs plates may have differed between males and females.Stegosaurus, a large, herbivorous dinosaur, lived roughly 150 million years ago and had two staggered rows of bony plates along its back. Some individuals had

Content analysis:

Stratigraphic context:

Recognized stratigraphic terms [n]:	Morrison Formation [1]
Agenames chronostratigraphy [rating]:	Lower Cretaceous [0.8] Upper Jurassic [0.75] Cretaceous [0.8] Jurassic [0.75] Mesozoic [0.89] Phanerozoic [0.89] Albian [0.1] Aptian [0.1] Barremian [0.1] Hauterivian [0.1] Tithonian [0.1] Kimmeridgian [0.1] Oxfordian [0.1]

Geographic context:

Location	Country	Latitude	Longitude
United States	US	37.1679	-95.845

Keywords:

bony plates, herbivorous dinosaur, Morrison Formation, Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus, PLoS, Sexual Dimorphism, staggered rows, Stegosauria, Stegosaurs plates, Stegosaurus Evidence, Upper Jurassic, Western USA..