New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: an extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria)

Citation

Sánchez-Fenollosa, S.; Cobos, A. (2025). New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: an extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria). Vertebrate Zoology 75: 165-189. doi:10.3897/vz.75.e146618

Cited by genera

• Alcovasaurus

  Recovered Alcovasaurus as the earliest-diverging member of Dacentrurinae in a new data matrix, tracing its earlier position outside Eurypoda to miscoded characters.

• Chungkingosaurus

  Recovered Chungkingosaurus as the earliest-diverging stegosaurid in its stegosaurian phylogeny.

• Dacentrurus

  Places the holotype in the lower part of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation.

• Huayangosaurus

  Divides Stegosauria into Huayangosauridae and Stegosauridae, with a five-genus Huayangosauridae that excludes Chungkingosaurus.

• Isaberrysaura

  Phylogenetic analysis of stegosaurian skulls recovered Isaberrysaura as a basal stegosaur.

• Kentrosaurus

  Recovered stegosaurian phylogeny placing Kentrosaurus within Dacentrurinae.

• Miragaia

  Follows the synonymy with Dacentrurus armatus, coding D. armatus partly from Miragaia material; recovers D. armatus in Dacentrurinae with Alcovasaurus, Kentrosaurus, Thyreosaurus and Adratiklit.

• Mongolostegus

  Recovered Mongolostegus as either a huayangosaurid or early-diverging stegosaurid.

• Wuerhosaurus

  Reports topologies that challenge the synonymization with Stegosaurus, while undermining the candidate autapomorphy.

• Yuxisaurus

  Recovered Yuxisaurus outside Eurypoda.

Cited by clades

• Dacentrurinae

  Formalized Dacentrurinae and expanded its membership.

• Stegosauridae

  Revised stegosaurian phylogeny, applying Madzia and colleagues' definition of Stegosauridae.

• Stegosaurinae

  Provided a modern phylogenetic definition of Stegosaurinae.