Catalog / genus

Scelidosaurus

Scelidosaurus is anchored by lectotype NHMUK R1111 and associated Early Jurassic Dorset material; those specimens do not define a complete genus duration or a thyreophoran first appearance. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.

Represented range193–191 Ma

Content packagedinosauria

PBDBtxn:38801

Evidence boundary

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Claim ledger

fossil-range · high

Scelidosaurus is anchored by lectotype NHMUK R1111 and associated Early Jurassic Dorset material; those specimens do not define a complete genus duration or a thyreophoran first appearance.

claim:taxon:scelidosaurus

Known limits

A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.

References

Scelidosaurus harrisonii (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England: biology and phylogenetic relationshipsNorman, D.B. · 2021 · DOI 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa061
Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933

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