Scutellosaurus (/skuːˌtɛloʊˈsɔːrəs/skoo-TEL-oh-SOR-əs) is a genus of thyreophoran ornithischian dinosaur that lived approximately 196 million years ago during the early part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Arizona, USA. It is classified in Thyreophora, the armoured dinosaurs; its closest relatives may have been Emausaurus and Scelidosaurus, another armored dinosaur which was mainly a quadrupedal dinosaur, unlike bipedal Scutellosaurus. It is one of the earliest representatives of the armored dinosaurs and the basalmost form discovered to date.[1]Scutellosaurus was a small, lightly-built, ground-dwelling herbivore, that could grow up to an estimated 1.3 metres (4.3 ft) long.
^Benton, Michael J. (2012). Prehistoric Life. Edinburgh, Scotland: Dorling Kindersley. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-7566-9910-9.
bipedal Scutellosaurus. It is one of the earliest representatives of the armored dinosaurs and the basalmost form discovered to date. Scutellosaurus was a...
bone, down-turned dentary tooth row". Among primitive thyreophorans, Scutellosaurus was likely primarily bipedal, while the more quadrupedally adapted Scelidosaurus...
Thyreophora, more derived than Scutellosaurus, but less than Scelidosaurus. Scelidosaurus, Emausaurus, and Scutellosaurus cluster at the base of most trees...
lateral, row were more conical, rather than the blade-like osteoderms of Scutellosaurus. Between these main series, one or two rows of smaller oval keeled scutes...
find Scelidosaurus and possibly other early forms like Emausaurus and Scutellosaurus to fall closer to Ankylosaurus than Stegosaurus, Carpenter and later...
thyreophorans), large, low osteoderms, and a bipedal stance, similar to Scutellosaurus. Its describers estimate it to be less than 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long...
known from the Kayenta Formation, and lived alongside dinosaurs such as Scutellosaurus and Sarahsaurus. It was designated as the state dinosaur of Connecticut...
the group Thyreophora, as the sister taxon of Scutellosaurus. Bone histology, similar to Scutellosaurus but unlike Lesothosaurus, has been posited as...
subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian avemetatarsalian Scolosaurus Scutellosaurus Secernosaurus Sefapanosaurus Segisaurus Segnosaurus Seismosaurus – junior...
other small herbivorous dinosaurs such as primitive Psittacosaurus or Scutellosaurus. In 1996, Tereshchenko reconstructed the walking model of Protoceratops...
that it had a higher growth rate than reported for Stegosaurus and Scutellosaurus, in view of the relatively rapid deposition of highly vascularised fibrolamellar...
fossilized tracks from dinosaurs such as Megapnosaurus, Dilophosaurus, and Scutellosaurus in the garden may date back to 200 million years ago. The park is additionally...
Coelophysis (formerly known as Megapnosaurus), and the early thyreophoran Scutellosaurus lived in North America. The latter is believed to have been the ancestor...
(2021). "The anatomy and palaeobiology of the early armoured dinosaur Scutellosaurus lawleri (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Kayenta Formation (Lower...
Sacisaurus, Silesaurus, etc.) and traditional ornithischians (Eocursor, Scutellosaurus, Heterodontosaurus, etc.). This phylogenetic position may explain why...
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