This course provides an overview of stegosaurian dinosaurs, focusing on their unique characteristics, evolutionary relationships, and potential functions of their plates and spines. Students will learn about stegosaurian fossils, body mass estimation methods, teeth structure, leg muscles, and the significance of plates and spines. The teaching method includes lectures on various stegosaurian species, digital models, and discussions on evolutionary relationships and sampling bias. This course is intended for individuals interested in paleontology, dinosaur anatomy, and evolutionary biology.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
Stegosaurian Dinosaurs
Ankylosaurus
Stegosaurian fossils
Stegosaurian body mass
Volumetric method
Linear bivariate method
Digital models
Teeth
Leg muscles
TRex model
Plates and spines
Hesperosaurus
Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation
New Stegosaurian
Questions
Antarctica
Evolutionary relationships
Gizzard
Sora
Stegosaurus
Shoulder spines
Alkavasaurus
Sampling Bias
Hatchlings
Taught by
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
