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Description
Scientific name: Lexovisaurus durobrivensis
Diet: low-growing plants (at the Zoo they eat mid-temperature plants)
Projected natural lifespan: 15 years
Length: 5 meters (~16 feet)
Weight: ~1,304 kilograms (~2,875 pounds)
Locality: Cambridgeshire, England (Oxford Clay), 164.7 Ma (Middle Jurassic Callovian)
Exhibit: Shield Bearers

About:
Lexovisaurus was a quite obscure stegosaur. This genus' fossils were first found in deposits that produced a lot of marine reptiles.

Description and behavior:
Lexovisaurus appeared to be quite a basal stegosaur that still retains traits from its ancestors, which gave rise to the ankylosaurs and stegosaurs. These included small osteoderms that ran parallel to the shoulder spike, and a small rudimentary club at the very end of the tail right behind the last pair of spikes. It also had a different lifestyle than later stegosaurs, possibly due to its different environment. Lexovisaurus lived on the shorelines of ancient islands, feeding on plants that grew next to the beach. Due to this, they can be quite shy creatures, encountering other dinosaurs usually every few days, usually members of their own genus. Adding to the mystifying feeling is that before the living animals were brought to the Zoo fossil scientists had declared Lexovisaurus a dubious genus, meaning that Lexovisaurus was not often mentioned by scientists, making it ambiguous and mysterious.

At the Zoo:
The Shield Bearers exhibit houses seven Lexovisaurus.

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The behavior is inspired by pigs and deer.

The skeletal I used for this picture is DrScottHartman 's Tuojiangosaurus with the neck and tail of his Kentrosaurus pasted on it.

The mass estimate is two-thirds of the Kentrosaurus mass added to one-third of the Tuojiangosaurus mass on Veterufreak 's stegosaur chart.

Description
Scientific name: Lexovisaurus durobrivensis
Diet: low-growing plants (at the Zoo they eat mid-temperature plants)
Projected natural lifespan: 15 years
Length: 5 meters (~16 feet)
Weight: ~1,304 kilograms (~2,875 pounds)
Locality: Cambridgeshire, England (Oxford Clay), 164.7 Ma (Middle Jurassic Callovian)
Exhibit: Shield Bearers

About:
Lexovisaurus was a quite obscure stegosaur. This genus' fossils were first found in deposits that produced a lot of marine reptiles.

Description and behavior:
Lexovisaurus appeared to be quite a basal stegosaur that still retains traits from its ancestors, which gave rise to the ankylosaurs and stegosaurs. These included small osteoderms that ran parallel to the shoulder spike, and a small rudimentary club at the very end of the tail right behind the last pair of spikes. It also had a different lifestyle than later stegosaurs, possibly due to its different environment. Lexovisaurus lived on the shorelines of ancient islands, feeding on plants that grew next to the beach. Due to this, they can be quite shy creatures, encountering other dinosaurs usually every few days, usually members of their own genus. Adding to the mystifying feeling is that before the living animals were brought to the Zoo fossil scientists had declared Lexovisaurus a dubious genus, meaning that Lexovisaurus was not often mentioned by scientists, making it ambiguous and mysterious.

At the Zoo:
The Shield Bearers exhibit houses seven Lexovisaurus.

----

The behavior is inspired by pigs and deer.

The skeletal I used for this picture is DrScottHartman 's Tuojiangosaurus with the neck and tail of his Kentrosaurus pasted on it.

The mass estimate is two-thirds of the Kentrosaurus mass added to one-third of the Tuojiangosaurus mass on Veterufreak 's stegosaur chart.