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Stegouros elengassen
Watercolour, colour pencil. 2023.
This is a highly speculative reconstruction of the animal, and as such many details are fabricated.
A small low-browsing relative of the much more famous Ankylosaurus, it had a flexible close-range tail weapon unlike the stiff, swinging clubs of its aforementioned relatives. It has a turtle-inspired top-down camouflage pattern that would hide it from the much taller dinosaurs it shared its habitat with. Rather than muscular cheeks to keep in chewed food, this Stegouros has been restored with an extended lizard-like rictal plate.