Stegosaurus: lit. "Roof-Lizard" (Late Jurassic Dinosaur) [Illustrious]

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Stegosaurus are one of the many dinosaurs described in the Bone Wars. The paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh first described them in 1877.[4] Marsh initially believed the remains were from an aquatic turtle-like animal, and the basis for its scientific name, 'roof(ed) lizard' was due to his early belief that the plates lay flat over the animal's back, overlapping like the shingles (tiles) on a roof.[4]