Scelidosaurus

Scelidosaurus is a genus of herbivorous armoured ornithischian dinosaur from the Jurassic of England.

Scelidosaurus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScelidosauridaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
Length
4 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 13 of 13 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–198 Mya — about 2 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 2 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199.5 Mya192.9 Mya206.3 Mya174.1 Mya

13 occurrences of Scelidosaurus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

13 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Charmouth Mudstone — 50.74°N, 2.90°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.72°N, 2.75°WWaterloo Mudstone — 54.80°N, 5.69°W

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The named rock units Scelidosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scelidosaurus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Scelidosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Scelidosaurus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 13 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Scelidosaurus

Credit
5of7
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scelidosaurus sp. · nhmuk:pal:R1111

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itScelidosauridae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1859