Dinosaur
Scelidosaurus
Rows of oval bony shields ran along its neck, back and tail.
Scelidosaurus fossils preserve armor arranged in rows over much of the body.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Scelidosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Thyreophora
- Armored dinosaurs
- Fossil locations
- England
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Scelidosaurus
This armored herbivore lived when Europe was an archipelago. Its fossils from Charmouth are exceptionally well preserved.
Rows of oval bony shields ran along its neck, back and tail. The exceptional preservation of the Charmouth specimens shows how those shields were arranged. Its European world was an archipelago, very different from today’s map.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Scelidosaurus harrisonii
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- Scelidosaurus
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- Thyreophora
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- Living birds
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