Scelidosauridae

Scelidosauridae is a group of basal thyreophoran dinosaurs that lived during the Early Jurassic in what are now England, China[1], and North America[2] with possible additional remains known from Portugal.[3] The group was named in 1869 by Thomas Henry Huxley.[4] Today it is generally considered paraphyletic, although Benton (2004) regards it as monophyletic.[5]

Scelidosauridae Temporal range: Early Jurassic, 197–183 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Life restoration of Scelidosaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Order:	†Ornithischia
Clade:	†Thyreophoroidea
Family:	†Scelidosauridae Huxley, 1869
Subgroups
†Bienosaurus †Lusitanosaurus? †Scelidosaurus

References

1. Dong Zhiming (2001). "Primitive Armored Dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, China". In Tanke, Darren H.; Carpenter, Kenneth (eds.). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press. pp. 237–243. ISBN 0-253-33907-3.
2. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Jurassic, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 530–532. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
3. A.F. de Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski, 1957, "Les dinosauriens du Portugal", Mémoires des Services Géologiques du Portugal, nouvelle série 2: 1-63
4. Huxley, T.H. (1869). "On the Dinosauria of the Trias, with observations on the classification of the Dinosauria". Nature. 1: 146.
5. Benton, M.J. (2004). Vertebrate Palaeontology (3rd ed.). Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-632-05637-8.