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Hypsirophus
Hypsirophus discurus (Cope 1878)
Late Jurassic (Tithonian) · 149.2–143.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Hypsirophus discurus is a stegosaur dinosaur known from the Late Jurassic, roughly 149.2–143.1 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Cope 1878). The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Hypsirophus sits in deep time
Hypsirophus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Hypsirophus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.