Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur

Scutellosaurus

Say it skoo-tell-oh-sore-us. The name means ‘small shield lizard’.

Scutellosaurus beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of armoured dinosaurs

Length: 1.2 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Early Jurassic205 to 202 million years ago
Fossils found in: USA
Named by: Colbert (1981)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora

Where Scutellosaurus sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33

Lived at the same time

Other armoured dinosaurs

Scelidosaurus Early Jurassic
Emausaurus Mid Jurassic
Huayangosaurus Mid Jurassic
Spicomellus Mid Jurassic
Chungkingosaurus Late Jurassic
Yingshanosaurus Late Jurassic
Tuojiangosaurus Late Jurassic
Kentrosaurus Late Jurassic

Source: Scutellosaurus in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.