Stegoceratops

"That's not a real dinosaur."

—Gray Mitchell^(src)

Name meaning	Roof Horned Face
Hybrid of	Stegosaurus + Triceratops + beetle + snake
Weight	15 tons (30,000 lbs) (13607.8 kgs)
Movie appearances	Jurassic World (Screen and concept art only)
Game appearances	Jurassic World: The Game LEGO Jurassic World (screen only) Jurassic World: Alive Jurassic World Evolution
Toy appearances	Jurassic World

Stegoceratops is a hybrid of Stegosaurus, Triceratops, a beetle and a snake. Despite appearing in the toy line and game adaptation of Jurassic World, it did not appear in the film itself.

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Story

Stegoceratops is seen on one of the computer monitors inside the Hammond Creation Lab, but it is unknown if it was ever created.

Computer screen with Stegoceratops on it. (Jurassic World)

Jurassic World: The Game

see Stegoceratops/JW: TG

Stegoceratops appears in Jurassic World: The Game. It appears as an opponent in one of the Battle Stages of Jurassic World: The Game. It was originally unavailable to obtain until June 10, 2015, only appearing in a battle stage. It can be created by fusing both a Level 40 Stegosaurus and a Level 40 Triceratops. Upon this fusing, it will be purchasable in the game's market.

Before the update on June 10, 2015 Stegoceratops had a nasal horn and a frill like Triceratops until this later update changed it to resemble how it looked in the concept art of Jurassic World.

Base Form Stegoceratops

Level 20 Stegoceratops

Level 30

Fully maxed Stegoceratops

Level 29 Stegoceratops with an older model, one depicting horns that closer resemble Triceratops.

LEGO Jurassic World

Stegoceratops appears in the level "Main Street Showdown" on a computer screen inside the Hammond Creation Lab like in the Jurassic World film. Gray Mitchell it on the computer screen and comments that it is not a real dinosaur.

The player can potentially create the Stegoceratops in the Dinosaur Customizer if they have the DNA of Triceratops and Stegosaurus.

Jurassic World: Alive

see Stegoceratops/JW: A

Stegoceratops is featured in Jurassic World: Alive. Strangely, this version looks very different from how it is usually portrayed in JP Media, with a head looking more like Triceratops than a Nasutoceratops.

Jurassic World Evolution

see Stegoceratops/JW: E

Stegoceratops was added to Jurassic World: Evolution through the Secrets of Dr. Wu DLC. Again, like how it was portrayed in Jurassic World: Alive, the head looks more like one of a Triceratops rather than a Nasutoceratops.

Jurassic World

A figure of Stegoceratops is a part of Hasbro's Jurassic World toy line. Pressing down on its thagomizer causes its head to jut forward in a ramming motion. There two skin variations of the toy with one being dark green and the other being brown.

Dark Green variant.

Brown variant.

Jurassic World: Dino Hybrid

Stegoceratops is part of the Jurassic World: Dino Hybrid toy line. It seems to be based on a level 40 Stegoceratops from Jurassic World: The Game. It will be available as one of the Basher and Biter figures, retooled from Stegoceratops.

Behind The Scenes

Stegoceratops concept art behind Colin Trevorrow.

Stegoceratops was originally supposed to physically appear in the Jurassic World film in a scene where Owen Grady and Claire Dearing encountered it in the jungle, discovering that Dr. Henry Wu was making more hybrids in secret, but it was cut when the script was being written, due to Colin Trevorrow's son saying that if they had Stegoceratops along with Indominus rex, the I. rex would feel less special.

According to early designs of the hybrids shown on the Creation Lab's computer monitor in Jurassic World, the beetle used in its creation gives it "exo-skeletal [sic] armour". Furthermore, one of the renderings says "GENE ASSET ID OWL #092345.435" which suggests that the film version of Stegoceratops might have owl DNA, though since this was never used in the film, it is unknown if this is canon. It also two different code names; these being "STEG.235" and "STEGA.324A-1", but these were ultimately never used and the computer screen in the final film instead shows "TRX REX.345-ALPHA" like with Indominus rex and the Pachycephalosaur-theropod hybrid.

It is similar to an animal from a movie called Yor, the Hunter from the Future, in which there is a creature that had identical traits like the hybrid. Coincidentally, it is also called Stegoceratops.

Despite it being part Triceratops, the face and horns resembles Nasutoceratops. Its frill appears to have been based on a hypothetical restoration of Triceratops by Nobu Tamura, although the frill on the Level 40 Stegoceratops from Jurassic World: The Game looks more like a Styracosaurus frill, not a Triceratops frill or a Nasutoceratops frill.

Concept art

Unused rendering of Stegoceratops for Jurassic World

Trivia

• The Stegoceratops appears in LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape. It appears as one of the dinosaurs that assists Owen Grady, Claire Dearing, and the Asset Containment Unit in corralling the Indominus rex.