Whats the dinosaur with the plates on its back?

Whats the dinosaur with the plates on its back?

Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus, (genus Stegosaurus), one of the various plated dinosaurs (Stegosauria) of the Late Jurassic Period (159 million to 144 million years ago) recognizable by its spiked tail and series of large triangular bony plates along the back.

Which dinosaur at plants and had speaker plates along its back?

The Kentrosaurus dinosaur from the Jurassic Period of North America has plates along its spine and spikes on its shoulders and tail Poster Print (16 x 12)

What type of dinosaur is a pachycephalosaurus?

Pachycephalosauria
Pachycephalosaurus gives its name to the Pachycephalosauria, a clade of herbivorous ornithischian (“bird hipped”) dinosaurs which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in North America and Asia. Despite their bipedal stance, they were likely more closely related to the ceratopsians than the ornithopods.

What are the Stegosaurus plates called?

scutes
Its 17 plates, called scutes, were made of a bony material called osteoderms but were not solid; they had lattice-like structures and blood vessels throughout.

Who first named the term dinosaur and when?

The first dinosaur fossils were recognized in the early 19th century, with the name “dinosaur” (meaning “terrible lizard”) having been coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1841 to refer to these “great fossil lizards”.

What is the headbutt dinosaur?

pachycephalosaurids
With domed heads and thick, bony skull protuberances, pachycephalosaurids are well known by seven-year-olds and palaeontologists alike. The dinosaurs are thought to have used their thick domes to headbutt each other, perhaps as part of courtship behaviour.

What is this pachycephalosaurus scientific name?

Pachycephalosaurus (Thick-headed lizard)
Pachycephalosaurus/Scientific names

What are the fins on the back of a Stegosaurus called?

Although Stegosaurus certainly had much to fear from the contemporary Morrison Formation predators Allosaurus, Torvosaurus and Ceratosaurus, the dinosaur’s defensive weapons were its tail spikes (called a “thagomizer” by some).

What is a dinosaur plate?

The plates were a temperature-regulation device. If Stegosaurus was, in fact, cold-blooded (as most plant-eating dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era presumably were), it might have used its plates to soak up light from the sun during the day and dissipate extra body heat at night.