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Lexovisaurus
Lexovisaurus phillipsi (Seeley 1869)
Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) · 161.5–154.8 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Lexovisaurus phillipsi is a stegosaur dinosaur known from the Late Jurassic, roughly 161.5–154.8 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Seeley 1869). 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 Lexovisaurus sits in deep time
Lexovisaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Lexovisaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.