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Stegosaurs: why did most of the species die out before the end?



Hi all
 
This question has been bugging me for a long time actually.  The first few dinosaur books I ever got were still of the days when Stegosaurs had these plates for armor protection.  I guess that its well established that they used them for regulating body temperature now, or differentiating between species?
 
The only Stegosaur I know that was around til the end of the Cretaceous is Dravidosaurus.  Only a handful of others made it into that same era.  So what happened to them, climatic change, different predators/food?
 
Regards
 
Gavin