Scolosaurus cutleri
By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable
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Name: Scolosaurus cutleri
Name Meaning: Pointed Stake Reptile
First Described: 1928
Described By: Nopcsa
Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae, Ankylosaurini
Scolosaurus is an Ankylosaurin from the Dinosaur Park Formation, as well as the Judith River Formation and the Two Medicine Formation, in Alberta Canada and Montana. It lived approximately 76.5 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. It is the oldest known Ankylosaurid from North America, known from multiple specimens including one that is nearly complete. Though thought to be a species of Euoplocephalus for a while, it was eventually found to be distinct; though still closely related to Euoplocephalus and in the group of Ankylosaurids most closely related to Ankylosaurus itself.
By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart
Scolosaurus had long, backswept cheek horns, and it had conical osteoderms on the back of the tail, as well as a circular tail club knob (as opposed to the dorito-shaped knob of Anodontosaurus.) It lived in an environment surrounded by rivers and deltas near the Western Interior Seaway, also near the rocky mountains. It lived in a seasonal, semi-arid climate, with rain shadows and a long dry season, as well as warm temperatures. It lived alongside many other dinosaurs in its formations such as Hypacrosaurus, Acristavus, Gryposaurus, Brachylophosaurus, Gilshades, Prosaurolophus, Maiasaura, Edmontonia, Caenagnathus, Chirostenotes, Orodromeus, Achelousaurus, Brachyceratops, Cersinops, Einiosaurus, Prenoceratops, Rubeosaurus, Troodon, Bambiraptor, Saurornitholestes, Apatornis, Avisaurus, Daspletosaurus, and Gorgosaurus, as well as many different types of other kinds of reptiles, several mammals, amphibians, and fish.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolosaurus
Arbour, V. M, & P. J. Currie. 2015. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1059985
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