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Scelidosaurus (/ ˌsɛlɪdoʊˈsɔːrəs /; with the intended meaning of "limb lizard", from Greek skelis / σκελίς meaning 'rib of beef' and sauros / σαυρος meaning 'lizard') [1] is a genus of herbivorous armoured ornithischian dinosaur from the Jurassic of England. Scelidosaurus lived during the Early Jurassic Period, during the ...
Scutellosaurus (/ skuːˌtɛloʊˈsɔːrəs / skoo-TEL-oh-SOR-əs) is a genus of basal 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. Emausaurus is a genus of thyreophoran or armored dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Early Toarcian). Its fossils have been found in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. Emausaurus is the only known Toarcian thyreophoran, as well as the only dinosaur from the zone of the same age with a formal name.
Herrerasaurus was a lightly built bipedal carnivore with a long tail and a relatively small head. Adults had skulls up to 56 cm (22 in) long and were up to 6 m (20 ft) in total length [ 4 ] and 350 kg (770 lb) in weight. [ 38 ] Smaller specimens were about 4.5 m (15 ft) long and weighed about 200 kg (440 lb). [ 39 ]
Armored dinosaurs that weren't stegosaurs were unknown in the formation until the 1990s. Two have been named: Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum and Mymoorapelta maysi. Ornithopods, bipedal herbivores, came in several types. Small "hypsilophodonts" included Drinker nisti, Laosaurus celer, "L." gracilis, Nanosaurus agilis, Othnielia rex, and ...
Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Stegosaurian fossils have been found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, predominantly in what is now North America, Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. Their geographical origins are unclear; the earliest unequivocal ...
Soto-Acuña et al., 2021. Stegouros (/ ˌstɛɡəˈjʊərɒs /, meaning "roofed tail") is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Dorotea Formation of southern Chile. The genus contains a single species, Stegouros elengassen, known from a semi-articulated, near-complete skeleton.
Nodosauridae is a family of ankylosaurian dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous periods in what is now Asia, Europe, North America, and possibly South America. While traditionally regarded as a monophyletic clade as the sister taxon to the Ankylosauridae, some analyses recover it as a paraphyletic grade leading to the ...