Genus

Valid Extinct

Scolosaurus

thorn lizard

Nopcsa 1928

Scolosaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid dinosaurs within the subfamily Ankylosaurinae. It is known from the lower levels of the Dinosaur Park Formation and upper levels of the Oldman Formation in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. The genus contains two species, S. cutleri and S. thronus. The type species, S. cutleri, measured up to 5.6 metres (18 ft) in length and 2.2 metric tons in body mass.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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Scolosaurus thronus - Royal Tyrrell Museum © Alan & Flora Botting · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Ornithischia Unranked clade

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Parapredentata Unranked clade

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Saphornithischia Unranked clade

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Prionodontia Unranked clade

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Genasauria Unranked clade

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Thyreophora Unranked clade

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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily

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Eurypoda Unranked clade

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Ankylosauria Unranked clade

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Euankylosauria Unranked clade

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Ankylosauridae Family

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Ankylosaurinae Subfamily

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Euoplocephalini Tribe

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Scolosaurus Genus

Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇦 Canada

Geological formations

Dinosaur Park

Temporal distribution

Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)

Species (2)

Scolosaurus cutleri 84 Ma

Scolosaurus thronus 84 Ma

Images 4

Bibliography

Original description

B. F. Nopcsa. 1928. Palaeontological notes on reptiles. VI. Scolosaurus cutleri, a new dinosaur. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 1(1):54-74

Bibliography (2)

P. Penkalski. 2018. Revised systematics of the armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus and its allies. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 287(3):261-306 DOI ↗

B. F. Nopcsa. 1928. Palaeontological notes on reptiles. VI. Scolosaurus cutleri, a new dinosaur. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 1(1):54-74