Also known as Scelidosaurus neotype

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Lias Formation (Lias Group), Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• "Lower Lias"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Harrison in 1850s-1862; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Skull and limbs collected prior to 1861, the remainder shortly afterward (1861-2).

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1861. A monograph of a fossil dinosaur (Scelidosaurus harrisonii, Owen) of the Lower Lias, part I. Monographs on the British fossil Reptilia from the Oolitic Formations 1:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52259: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 02.08.2005