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Scelidosaurus
Taxonomy
Scelidosaurus was named by Owen (1859). It is the type genus of Scelidosauridae, Scelidosaurinae.
It was assigned to Orthopoda by Cope (1866) and Seeley (1879); to Stegosauria by Quenstedt (1882); to Scelidosauria by Sauvage (1882); to Stegosauria by Dollo (1885); to Dinosauria by Owen (1859), Owen (1860), Owen (1861), Owen (1861), Owen (1862) and Mansel-Pleydell (1888); to Stegosauri by Gadow (1897); to Stegosauri by Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Omosauridae by Huene (1909); to Stegosauridae by Nopcsa (1901), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913), Lambe (1918) and Joleaud (1922); to Stegosauria by Dollo (1889) and Delair (1960); to Ankylosauria by Thulborn (1971); to Scelidosauroidea by Zhao (1983); to Scelidosaurinae by Nopcsa (1928), Romer (1956) and Zhou (1986); to Ankylosauromorpha by Carpenter (2001); to Thyreophoroidea by Sereno (1986) and Maidment et al. (2008); to Thyreophora by Benton (1990), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Barrett (2001), Norman et al. (2004), Maidment et al. (2006), Norman et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2007), Nesbitt et al. (2007) and Butler et al. (2008); to Scelidosauridae by Cope (1869), Marsh (1880), Sauvage (1882), Marsh (1882), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Lydekker (1888), Lydekker (1888), Zittel (1890), Baur (1891), Marsh (1896), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hennig (1915), Lull (1924), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Ginsburg (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1974), Thulborn (1977), Galton (1983), Galton (1985), Carroll (1988), Martill (1991), Dong (2001) and Ulansky (2014); and to Thyreophora by Avanzini et al. (2001), Naish and Martill (2008), Han et al. (2012), Madzia et al. (2018), Norman (2020) and Dieudonné et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Orthopoda by Cope (1866) and Seeley (1879); to Stegosauria by Quenstedt (1882); to Scelidosauria by Sauvage (1882); to Stegosauria by Dollo (1885); to Dinosauria by Owen (1859), Owen (1860), Owen (1861), Owen (1861), Owen (1862) and Mansel-Pleydell (1888); to Stegosauri by Gadow (1897); to Stegosauri by Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Omosauridae by Huene (1909); to Stegosauridae by Nopcsa (1901), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913), Lambe (1918) and Joleaud (1922); to Stegosauria by Dollo (1889) and Delair (1960); to Ankylosauria by Thulborn (1971); to Scelidosauroidea by Zhao (1983); to Scelidosaurinae by Nopcsa (1928), Romer (1956) and Zhou (1986); to Ankylosauromorpha by Carpenter (2001); to Thyreophoroidea by Sereno (1986) and Maidment et al. (2008); to Thyreophora by Benton (1990), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Barrett (2001), Norman et al. (2004), Maidment et al. (2006), Norman et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2007), Nesbitt et al. (2007) and Butler et al. (2008); to Scelidosauridae by Cope (1869), Marsh (1880), Sauvage (1882), Marsh (1882), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Lydekker (1888), Lydekker (1888), Zittel (1890), Baur (1891), Marsh (1896), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hennig (1915), Lull (1924), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Ginsburg (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1974), Thulborn (1977), Galton (1983), Galton (1985), Carroll (1988), Martill (1991), Dong (2001) and Ulansky (2014); and to Thyreophora by Avanzini et al. (2001), Naish and Martill (2008), Han et al. (2012), Madzia et al. (2018), Norman (2020) and Dieudonné et al. (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1859 | Scelidosaurus Owen p. 150–151 |
1860 | Scelidosaurus Owen p. 258 |
1861 | Scelidosaurus Owen p. 1 |
1862 | Scelidosaurus Owen p. 1 |
1866 | Scelidosaurus Cope p. 317 |
1869 | Scelidosaurus Cope p. 91 |
1879 | Scelidosaurus Seeley p. 183 |
1880 | Scelidosaurus Marsh |
1882 | Scelidosaurus Marsh |
1882 | Scelidosaurus Quenstedt p. 188 |
1882 | Scelidosaurus Sauvage p. 35 |
1884 | Scelidosaurus Dollo p. 298 |
1884 | Scelidosaurus Marsh p. 68 |
1885 | Scelidosaurus Dollo p. 36 |
1885 | Scelidosaurus Marsh p. 764 |
1888 | Scelidosaurus Lydekker p. 52 |
1888 | Scelidosaurus Mansel-Pleydell p. 36 |
1889 | Scelidosaurus Dollo p. 678 |
1890 | Scelidosaurus Zittel p. 741 |
1891 | Scelidosaurus Baur p. 452 |
1896 | Scelidosaurus Marsh p. 243 |
1897 | Scelidosaurus Gadow p. 205 |
1898 | Scelidosaurus Gadow p. 22 |
1901 | Scelidosaurus Gadow p. 425 |
1901 | Scelidosaurus Nopcsa p. 215 |
1902 | Scelidosaurus Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxxi |
1909 | Scelidosaurus Huene p. 17 |
1911 | Scelidosaurus von Zittel p. 293 |
1913 | Scelidosaurus Tornier p. 373 |
1915 | Scelidosaurus Hennig p. 10 |
1918 | Scelidosaurus Lambe pp. 34-35 |
1922 | Scelidosaurus Joleaud p. 63 |
1924 | Scelidosaurus Lull p. 241 |
1928 | Scelidosaurus Nopcsa p. 185 |
1956 | Scelidosaurus Romer p. 633 |
1960 | Scelidosaurus Delair p. 86 |
1964 | Scelidosaurus Ginsburg p. 2366 |
1964 | Scelidosaurus Kuhn p. 32 |
1964 | Scelidosaurus Tatarinov p. 572 |
1966 | Scelidosaurus Romer p. 370 |
1967 | Scelidosaurus Charig p. 715 |
1970 | Scelidosaurus Swinton p. 242 |
1971 | Scelidosaurus Thulborn p. 77 |
1974 | Scelidosaurus Thulborn p. 172 |
1977 | Scelidosaurus Thulborn p. 727 |
1983 | Scelidosaurus Galton p. 4 |
1983 | Scelidosaurus Zhao p. 302 |
1985 | Scelidosaurus Galton p. 251 |
1986 | Scelidosaurus Sereno |
1986 | Scelidosaurus Zhou p. 35 |
1988 | Scelidosaurus Carroll |
1990 | Scelidosaurus Benton p. 19 |
1991 | Scelidosaurus Martill p. 61 |
1997 | Scelidosaurus Sereno p. 440 fig. 2 |
1998 | Scelidosaurus Sereno p. 67 fig. 5 |
1999 | Scelidosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
2001 | Scelidosaurus Avanzini et al. p. 240 |
2001 | Scelidosaurus Barrett p. 27 fig. 2.1 |
2001 | Scelidosaurus Carpenter p. 457 |
2001 | Scelidosaurus Dong p. 241 |
2004 | Scelidosaurus Norman et al. p. 337 |
2006 | Scelidosaurus Maidment et al. p. 951 fig. 8 |
2007 | Scelidosaurus Butler et al. fig. S2 |
2007 | Scelidosaurus Nesbitt et al. p. 236 |
2007 | Scelidosaurus Norman et al. p. 867 |
2008 | Scelidosaurus Butler et al. p. 20 figs. 2-4 |
2008 | Scelidosaurus Maidment et al. p. 390 fig. 11 |
2008 | Scelidosaurus Naish and Martill p. 614 |
2012 | Scelidosaurus Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14 |
2014 | Scelidosaurus Ulansky p. 4 |
2018 | Scelidosaurus Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4 |
2020 | Scelidosaurus Dieudonné et al. |
2020 | Scelidosaurus Norman p. 12 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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R. Owen 1859 | a Saurian with large and hollow limb-bones, with a femur having the third inner trochanter, and with metacarpal and phalangial bones adapted for movement on land. | |
D. B. Norman 2020 | Monotypic genus, therefore, as for species S. harrisonii. |