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Most Complete European Stegosaur Skull Found in a Spanish Crop Field Rewrites the Plated-Dinosaur Family Tree

Paleontologists at the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis announced on May 15, 2026 the description of the most complete stegosaurian skull ever recovered in Europe — a roughly 150-million-year-old specimen of the iconic plated dinosaur Dacentrurus armatus excavated from an Upper Jurassic crop field outside Riodeva in Teruel, Spain. The fossil preserves the frontal, postorbital, squamosal, parietal and supraoccipital bones as well as an associated cervical vertebra that confirmed the identification. Reporting in PLOS One, the team led by Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa proposes a substantially revised stegosaurian phylogeny anchored on a new clade, Neostegosauria, and announces that the same Sierra de Javalambre site has yielded nearly 200 additional fossils representing at least two Dacentrurus individuals at different growth stages.