The Stegosaurus was one of the first dinosaurs seen in King Kong It was wounded in the leg and couldn't get up so the search party just walked around it, hoping that its thorney tail wouldn't stab them or wound anyone. Once they got past the herbivore they went deeper into the jungle of Skull Island. In Peter Jackson's remake of the 1933 movie, the Stegosaurus was not featured. However, in the book The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island, it did have a descendent on the Island called Atercerisaurus.