Genre
Valide Éteint

Scelidosaurus

Owen 1859
Étymologie Reptile à (gros) membres

Scelidosaurus est un genre fossile de dinosaure ornithischien herbivore quadrupède de l'infra-ordre des ankylosauriens. Il a vécu au début du Jurassique, 200 millions d’années avant notre ère.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
13
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Scelidosaurus
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In 2000 a virtually complete Scelidosaurus skeleton was discovered in England. This fossil's hundreds of armor plates and spikes are preserved in their life positions, providing extraordinary details about how this dinosaur looked. St. George is the only place anywhere in the Western Hemisphere that the 11-foot long Scelidosaurus replica has been on display. The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm (St. George, Utah) is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, show evidence that this site was produced along the western edge of a large, Early Jurassic (age between 195-198 million years ago) freshwater lake named Lake Dixie. Source: www.sgcity.org/dinotrax/ © 5of7 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Ornithischia Clade non classé
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Parapredentata Clade non classé
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Saphornithischia Clade non classé
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Prionodontia Clade non classé
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Genasauria Clade non classé
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Thyreophora Clade non classé
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamille
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Scelidosauridae Famille
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Scelidosaurus Genre
Mesures
Longueur
4 m ⓘ
Sites de découverte 13 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni
12
🇨🇳 Chine
1
Formations géologiques
Charmouth Mudstone
10
Waterloo Mudstone
1
Distribution temporelle
Pliensbachien (192.9–184.2 Ma)
2
Sinémurien (199.5–192.9 Ma)
10
Hettangien (201.4–199.5 Ma)
1
Espèces (1)
Scelidosaurus harrisonii 200 Ma
Bibliographie
Description originale
R. Owen. 1859. Palaeontology. The Encyclopaedia Brittanica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature (8th Edition) 17:91-176
Bibliographie (7)
M. J. Simms, R. S. H. Smyth, and D. M. Martill, P. C. Collins, R. Byrne. 2021. First dinosaur remains from Ireland. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 132:771-779 DOI ↗
D. B. Norman. 2020. Scelidosaurus harrisonii from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England: cranial anatomy. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(1):1-81 DOI ↗
D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2007. Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: basal Dinosauria and Saurischia. Journal of the Geological Society, London 164:493-510 DOI ↗
D. M. Martill, D. K. Loydell, and D. J. Batten. 1997. A thyreophoran dinosaur with organically preserved skin and dermal ossifications from the ?Lower Jurassic of England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3, suppl.):62A
P. Ensom. 1987. Scelidosaur remains from the Lower Lias of Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 108:203-205
X. Zhao. 1985. [The Jurassic Reptilia]. [The Jurassic System of China. Stratigraphy of China, No. 11]
J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90