Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12030

    ‘Stegosaurus ungulatus’

    Date
    1896
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN54583
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 254mm
    width (print): 194mm
    Subject
    Earth Sciences
       > Palaeontology
          > Fossils
    Description
    Side view of a reconstruction of the fossilized skeletal remains of a Jurassic period dinosaur, Stegosaurus ungulatus.

    Plate 52 from the book The dinosaurs of North America by Othniel Charles Marsh (Washington, 1896).

    The accompanying description states that: ‘In this restoration the animal is represented as walking, and the position is adapted to that motion…All the typical members of the Stegosauria are from the Jurassic formation, and the type specimen used in the present restoration was found in Wyoming, in the Atlantosaurus beds of the upper Jurassic.’

    Inscribed above: ‘U.S.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PART I PL.LII.’ Inscribed below: ‘RESTORATION OF STEGOSAURUS UNGULATUS Marsh. One-thirtieth natural size. Jurassic, Wyoming.’

    Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) American palaeontologist and Yale University professor, known for participating in the ‘bone wars’ against Edward Drinker Cope.
    Associated place
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       > North America
          > United States
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