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Scutellosaurus
Taxonomy
Scutellosaurus was named by Colbert (1981).
It was assigned to Ornithischia by Norman (1984); to Fabrosauridae by Colbert (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Galton (1983), Milner and Norman (1984), Russell (1984) and Battail (1986); to Thyreophora by Benton (1990), Sereno (1991), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Barrett (2001), Norman et al. (2004), Weishampel (2004), Maidment et al. (2006), Butler et al. (2007), Nesbitt et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2008) and Maidment et al. (2008); to Scelidosauridae by Carroll (1988), Dong (2001) and Ulansky (2014); and to Thyreophora by Han et al. (2012), Madzia et al. (2018), Dieudonné et al. (2020) and Breeden et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Ornithischia by Norman (1984); to Fabrosauridae by Colbert (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Galton (1983), Milner and Norman (1984), Russell (1984) and Battail (1986); to Thyreophora by Benton (1990), Sereno (1991), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Barrett (2001), Norman et al. (2004), Weishampel (2004), Maidment et al. (2006), Butler et al. (2007), Nesbitt et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2008) and Maidment et al. (2008); to Scelidosauridae by Carroll (1988), Dong (2001) and Ulansky (2014); and to Thyreophora by Han et al. (2012), Madzia et al. (2018), Dieudonné et al. (2020) and Breeden et al. (2021).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Scutellosaurus Colbert p. 6 |
| 1983 | Scutellosaurus Galton p. 14 |
| 1983 | Scutellosaurus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44 |
| 1984 | Scutellosaurus Milner and Norman p. 146 |
| 1984 | Scutellosaurus Norman p. 342 |
| 1984 | Scutellosaurus Russell p. 22 |
| 1986 | Scutellosaurus Battail p. 50 |
| 1988 | Scutellosaurus Carroll |
| 1990 | Scutellosaurus Benton p. 28 |
| 1991 | Scutellosaurus Sereno p. 176 |
| 1997 | Scutellosaurus Sereno p. 440 fig. 2 |
| 1998 | Scutellosaurus Sereno p. 67 fig. 5 |
| 1999 | Scutellosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
| 2001 | Scutellosaurus Barrett p. 27 fig. 2.1 |
| 2001 | Scutellosaurus Dong p. 241 |
| 2004 | Scutellosaurus Norman et al. p. 337 |
| 2004 | Scutellosaurus Weishampel p. 323 |
| 2006 | Scutellosaurus Maidment et al. p. 951 fig. 8 |
| 2007 | Scutellosaurus Butler et al. fig. S2 |
| 2007 | Scutellosaurus Nesbitt et al. p. 236 |
| 2008 | Scutellosaurus Butler et al. p. 20 figs. 2-4 |
| 2008 | Scutellosaurus Maidment et al. p. 390 fig. 11 |
| 2012 | Scutellosaurus Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14 |
| 2014 | Scutellosaurus Ulansky p. 4 |
| 2018 | Scutellosaurus Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4 |
| 2020 | Scutellosaurus Dieudonné et al. |
| 2021 | Scutellosaurus Breeden et al. p. 6 |
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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
No diagnoses are available