This animal is a stegosaurus. Its name means “covered lizard,” referring to its bony plates, which line its back. The stegosaurus lived mostly in North America, approximately 150 to 155 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period.

The stegosaurus was a herbivorous quadruped. Herbivorous means that it was a herbivore, eating vegetation (plants) rather than meat (other animals). Quadruped means that it walked on four (quad) legs. Click here to print.