Scutellosaurus

DV-0275

Lived: 201 to 184 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Diet: Herbivore
Length: about 1.2 m (4 ft)
Group: Early armored dinosaurs
Found in: United States
Named by: Colbert 1981

Field notes

About Scutellosaurus

Scutellosaurus was a plant-eating early armored dinosaur that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 184 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 17 finds of Scutellosaurus, from Arizona. Its fossils come from the Kayenta Formation. It was named by Colbert in 1981.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

17 finds

195 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Scutellosaurus?

Scutellosaurus: about 1.2 m (4 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical early armored dinosaur shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Thyreophora.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. H. Colbert. 1981. A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 53:1-61