ERTH 2401 Lecture 8: Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurs

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: ERTH 2401
• Professor: Claudia Schröder-Adams

Document Summary

Europe, mongolia, in southern part of africa: history of discovery, early discoveries in england in 1870s, great dinosaur rush at como bluff by marsh and cope, upper jurassic. Must know if same species and same time. Best case is to find a bone bed to know they lived together in a herd but is still difficult because organs to say this is a male and this is a female are often not preserved. Work here always has lots of question marks but one can interpret and suggest: solitary or gregarious, solitary = lived alone, gregarious = lived in herds, a lot of questions marks. Thermoregulation (extends body size: stegosaur plates, see lines on plates which could be for blood vessels. Plates towards end of tail develop into spines as well: history of research, hylaeosaurus (nodosaur) discovered in england by mantell in 1830s. One of the first di(cid:374)osaurs (cid:374)a(cid:373)ed, a(cid:374)d o(cid:374)e of the origi(cid:374)al three (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers of o(cid:449)e(cid:374)"s.