Scutellosaurus lawleri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScutellosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Scutellosaurus lawleri 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
17 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
- Kayenta Formation · Glen Canyon Group17
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The named rock units Scutellosaurus lawleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scutellosaurus lawleri and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Scutellosaurus lawleri and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Kayentachelys10 sites
- Archosauria5 sites
- Ornithischia5 sites
- Kayentatherium4 sites
- Testudines4 sites
- Tritylodontidae4 sites
- Dinnebitodon3 sites
- Oligokyphus3 sites
- Syntarsus kayentakatae3 sites
- Theropoda3 sites
- Dilophosaurus wetherilli2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Anura1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Crocodylomorpha1 site
- Cryptodira1 site
- Diapsida1 site
- Dilophosaurus1 site
- Dinnetherium nezorum1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Eocaecilia micropodia1 site
- Haramiyidae1 site
- Heterodontosauridae1 site
- Kayentachelys aprix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Scutellosaurus lawleri, 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
6 references- New specimens of Scutellosaurus lawleri Colbert,1981, from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in Arizona elucidate the early evolution of thyreophoran dinosaurs10
- The anatomy and palaeobiology of the early armoured dinosaur Scutellosaurus lawleri (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Kayenta Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Arizona2
- A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Kayenta Formation of Arizona2
- Fossil Vertebrate Collections1
- Presence of the dinosaur Scelidosaurus indicates Jurassic age for the Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group, northern Arizona)1
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Glen Canyon Group in northern Arizona1
Each of the 17 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 content0
No picture of Scutellosaurus lawleri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scutellosaurus lawleri itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scutellosaurus lawleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scutellosaurus lawleri was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itScutellosaurus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Colbert 1981