| rdfs:comment | - thumb|400px El Scelidosaurus poseía un cuerpo alargado y cuatro patas relativamente robustas. Su cráneo medía sólo 20 cm de longitud y terminaba en un pico córneo desdentado. Puesto que tenía los molares muy pequeños, no le era posible triturar bien las plantas, por lo que probablemente masticaba un poco las plantas y luego las engullía. Es posible que tragara piedras estomacales para terminar la masticación en el estómago. La nuca, el lomo y la cola estaban acorazados con placas óseas dispuestas en paralelo, así como también tenía bultos y placas óseas que le protegían de los mordiscos. Categoría:Reptiles Categoría:Dinosaurios Categoría:Ornitisquios Categoría:Nodosaurios Categoría:Fauna del Jurásico
- Scelidosaurus lived during the Early Jurassic Period, during the Sinemurian to Pliensbachian stages around 191 million years ago. This genus and related genera at the time lived on the supercontinent Laurasia. Its fossils have been found near Charmouth in Dorset, England, and are known for their excellent preservation. Scelidosaurus has been called the earliest complete dinosaur. It is the most completely known dinosaur of the British Isles. Despite this, a modern description is still lacking. After initial finds in the 1850s, comparative anatomist Richard Owen named and described Scelidosaurus in 1859. Only one species, Scelidosaurus harrisonii named by Owen in 1861, is considered valid today, although one other species has been proposed in 1996.
- Scelidosaurus lived during the Early Jurassic Period, during the Sinemurian to Pliensbachian stages around 191 million years ago. This genus and related genera at the time lived on the supercontinent Laurasia. Its fossils have been found near Charmouth in Dorset, England, and are known for their excellent preservation. Scelidosaurus has been called the earliest complete dinosaur.[2][3] It is the most completely known dinosaur of the British Isles. Despite this, a modern description is still lacking. After initial finds in the 1850s, comparative anatomist Richard Owen named and described Scelidosaurus in 1859. Only one species, Scelidosaurus harrisonii named by Owen in 1861, is considered valid today, although one other species has been proposed in 1996.
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| abstract | - thumb|400px El Scelidosaurus poseía un cuerpo alargado y cuatro patas relativamente robustas. Su cráneo medía sólo 20 cm de longitud y terminaba en un pico córneo desdentado. Puesto que tenía los molares muy pequeños, no le era posible triturar bien las plantas, por lo que probablemente masticaba un poco las plantas y luego las engullía. Es posible que tragara piedras estomacales para terminar la masticación en el estómago. La nuca, el lomo y la cola estaban acorazados con placas óseas dispuestas en paralelo, así como también tenía bultos y placas óseas que le protegían de los mordiscos. Categoría:Reptiles Categoría:Dinosaurios Categoría:Ornitisquios Categoría:Nodosaurios Categoría:Fauna del Jurásico
- Scelidosaurus lived during the Early Jurassic Period, during the Sinemurian to Pliensbachian stages around 191 million years ago. This genus and related genera at the time lived on the supercontinent Laurasia. Its fossils have been found near Charmouth in Dorset, England, and are known for their excellent preservation. Scelidosaurus has been called the earliest complete dinosaur. It is the most completely known dinosaur of the British Isles. Despite this, a modern description is still lacking. After initial finds in the 1850s, comparative anatomist Richard Owen named and described Scelidosaurus in 1859. Only one species, Scelidosaurus harrisonii named by Owen in 1861, is considered valid today, although one other species has been proposed in 1996. Scelidosaurus was about 4 metres (13 ft) long. It was a largely quadrupedal animal, feeding on low scrubby plants, the parts of which were bitten off by the small, elongated head to be processed in the large gut. Scelidosaurus was lightly armoured, protected by long horizontal rows of keeled oval scutes, that stretched along the neck, back and tail. One of the oldest known and most "primitive" of the thyreophorans, the exact placement of Scelidosaurus within this group has been the subject of debate for nearly 150 years. This was not helped by the limited additional knowledge about the early evolution of armoured dinosaurs. Today most evidence indicates that Scelidosaurus is a basal member of the Thyreophora, more basal than, and ancestral to, the two more advanced clades of Thyreophoran, Stegosauridae and Ankylosauria.
- Scelidosaurus lived during the Early Jurassic Period, during the Sinemurian to Pliensbachian stages around 191 million years ago. This genus and related genera at the time lived on the supercontinent Laurasia. Its fossils have been found near Charmouth in Dorset, England, and are known for their excellent preservation. Scelidosaurus has been called the earliest complete dinosaur.[2][3] It is the most completely known dinosaur of the British Isles. Despite this, a modern description is still lacking. After initial finds in the 1850s, comparative anatomist Richard Owen named and described Scelidosaurus in 1859. Only one species, Scelidosaurus harrisonii named by Owen in 1861, is considered valid today, although one other species has been proposed in 1996. Scelidosaurus was about 4 metres (13 ft) long. It was a largely quadrupedal animal, feeding on low scrubby plants, the parts of which were bitten off by the small, elongated, head to be processed in the large gut. Scelidosaurus was lightly armoured, protected by long horizontal rows of keeled oval scutes, that stretched along the neck, back and tail. One of the oldest known and most "primitive" of the thyreophorans, the exact placement of Scelidosaurus within this group has been the subject of debate for nearly 150 years. This was not helped by the limited additional knowledge about the early evolution of armoured dinosaurs. Today most evidence indicates that Scelidosaurus is a basal member of the Thyreophora, lower placed in the evolutionary tree of life than the Ankylosauridae or the Stegosauridae.
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