#Scutellosaurus

[dinodanicus]

A lone scutellosaurus forages for food on the forest floor as a light rain begins to fall.

[makairodonx]

Cat and Mouse, Early Jurassic Style

A Dilophosaurus wetherilli, one of the world's first big theropod predators ever to have evolved, chases down a Scutellosaurus lawleri, an ur-exemplar of the Thyreophorans and a dog-sized, fleet-footed precursor to future armored giants such as Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus, off the edge of a sand dune 196 million years ago in what is now the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona.

[bookrat]

A pair of Scutellosaurus have a disagreement

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

A group of visionaries have figured out how to bring nonavian dinosaurs to the present, and have determined the 10 species that make the best pets and domesticated them, with an oversimplified guide to what modern pet/livestock/husbandry animals they resemble most. you have done the work, you're completely prepared, and today, you're bringing your new friend home.

you will be able to take care of the pet and they will become your best friend for the rest of your lives. there are no downsides to any of these pets apart from what is in the brief description.

the pets, with image descriptions indicating which is which and artist credit, with artist links attached:

[confusedhadrosaur]

Day 30: Scutellosaurus lawleri

Aaaaaand done! I finally took a step out of my digital comfort zone and beat an art challenge with normal pens! (Somewhat, the shading was added digitally, I'm a coward)

[prehistozoo1]

Hey, look, there's a little thorny guy looking for food at the mouth of the cave! welcome to my first dioramas illustration. Here I painted two Scutellosaurus lawleri looking for food.

Scutellosaurus lived in the early Jurassic period. Scutellosaurus was a small plant eater of the Thyreophora group, including the stegosaurus and ankylosaurus. It is one of the earliest representatives of armored dinosaurs. Their size is also small, only about 1.5 to 2m long and weighing about 3kg

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[saritawolff]

#Archovember Day 30 - Scutellosaurus lawleri

For our final archosaur, we head to Arizona, USA during the Early Jurassic. Scutellosaurus lawleri was a basal thyreophoran, part of the group which would lead to stegosaurs, nodosaurs, parankylosaurs, and eventually ankylosaurs. But in the Early Jurassic, thyreophorans were small and lightly built, a far cry from the lumbering tanks they would someday become. Scutellosaurus was mostly bipedal, using its long tail as a counterbalance. It had several hundred osteoderms covering its whole body and forming parallel rows, some flat and some pitted.

As more than 70 specimens are known, Scutellosaurus lawleri was probably a fairly common animal. It has been found all over the Kayenta Formation. Its excess of osteoderms was likely due to the amount of predators here. It would have had to look out for the theropods Coelophysis, Kayentavenator, and the apex predator Dilophosaurus. It also lived alongside other herbivorous dinosaurs like the sauropodomorph Sarahsaurus. Early pterosaurs, like the dimorphodontid Rhamphinion, and pseudosuchians like Kayentasuchus also lived here, as well as a variety of early frogs, salamanders, rhynchocephalians, and small synapsids. This environment was an ever changing floodplain, experiencing rainy summers and dry winters at the edge of a large desert.

[spookyshape]

some dinos

[inkasaurus]

Jurassic July No.1 - scutellosaurus

[vickysaurus]

While working on my new watercolour, the idea that basal thyreophorans like Scutellosaurus, Scelidosaurus, and Jakapil were probably a lot like goats popped into my mind fully formed. Short, stocky creatures with weird horns and bumps. Easy to overlook and not especially charismatic, but in possession of an admirable amount of stick-to-it-ive-ness and generally not giving a fuck what anyone thinks. Probably way stronger than they look and quite stubborn and independent-minded. Probably climbed and ate all sorts of things they weren't supposed to.

[unscrupulousartist]

Yesterday's dino. Tomorrow I'm playing catch up.

[misterrogers22]

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too. 

Find the episode webpage at: Episode 69 - John Hammond.

In this episode (stream it here!), my terrific guest June Hatfield joins the show to chat with me about:

Seattle, the Pacific North West and the Olympic Peninsula, Cray Supercomputers, Olympic National Forests, ancient forests, the "Grunge Scene," the tradition of re-reading Jurassic Park every summer, paperback editions of Jurassic Park, and First Edition of Jurassic Park, changes between different editions of Jurassic Park, writing tension and timing in fiction, Crichton's writing, Dr. Henry Wu, sparing expenses, Robert Muldoon, transportation to and from Isla Nublar, JP's target audience, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

The First Troodontid from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia (Harenadraco prima)

The Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolutionary History of the Armoured Dinosaurs  (Ankylosauria, Stegosauria, Nodosauridae)

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

Intro: Toucans, and the Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

First, my essay Lex and Big Rex

"Lex and Big Rex have a symbolic partnership in Jurassic Park, which shows that only after losing a series of father figures can Lex find the strength to face the fear and uncertainty of her parents’ divorce – which is symbolized by the Big Rex."

Then:  

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 4 "Introducing John Hammond."

David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script. 

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause you to try and pass your failed bread attempts as just an unlevened Kosher product.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

Thank you!

The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time! 

#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

[makairodonx]

Dilophosaurus wetherilli: My second entry for Jurassic June 2024

[thepaleopetshop]

Skittles Stuff

Skittles is a curious critter, especially when it comes to anything edible… Continue reading Skittles Stuff

[bookrat]

In no particular order, my fave projects for this year. There were 70 again, meaning I failed my resolution to work less hard this year.

It was good to finally finish this Caudipteryx. Other sculptor didn't like the feet and I waited like 2 years for him to make new ones before losing patience and doing it myself.

This expressive little cutie:

This little guy has the file name 'cutestsino' and he earned it.

Worked really hard on this new Kulindadromeus with the incredibly unintuitive tail scales, and I'm not going to let the fact that you can't see him get in the way of him being a favorite

This scutellosaurus pair. It's kinda hard to have 2 critters interacting when they're this size and need to travel separately

[saritapaleo]

Archovember 2024 Day 21 - Jakapil kaniukura

Jakapil kaniukura was a basal thyreophoran, the group that led to stegosaurs in the Late Jurassic and ankylosaurs in the Cretaceous. In the Early Jurassic, thyreophorans like Scutellosaurus were small and bipedal, eventually becoming the armoured tanks of later eras.

However, Jakapil lived in the Late Cretaceous of Argentina, at the same time as ankylosaurs on other continents, and its discovery represents a previously unknown lineage of thyreophoran in South America. Though fragmentary, its proportions seem to suggest it was bipedal like the early thyreophorans, and it also had distinct teeth that allowed it to chew, rather than shear leaves. Hopefully we can uncover more information about this strange little armored dinosaur in the future.

Jakapil lived in the Candeleros Formation which, in the Late Cretaceous, was an ancient desert called the Kokorkom Desert. This environment was covered in windblown sand, broken up by oases. Here, the tiny Jakapil would have lived in the shadow of sauropods like Limaysaurus and Rayososaurus, and the giant theropod Giganotosaurus. It would have also lived alongside small theropods like Bicentenaria, Buitreraptor, and the alvarezsaurid Alnashetri, as well as pseudosuchians like Araripesuchus, rhynchocephalians like Priosphenodon and Tika, mammals like Cronopio, turtles like Prochelidella, and frogs like Avitabatrachus.

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