Scutellosaurus Dinosaur Facts

Paleontologists believe Scutellosaurus is ambidextrous because their hind legs are longer than the forelimbs,, posture-wise may live in a crawl while eating, but was able to break into the two-legged gait when fleeing from predators.

Like the other early dinosaurs, Scutellosaurus is anatomically very similar to a small theropod prosauropods and h that roamed the earth during the late Triassic and early Jurassic period.

One of the constant themes of evolution is that big, imposing creature descending from a small, mouselike ancestors. Although no one would think to compare Scutellosaurus to mouse (weighs about 25 pounds, for example, and covered with bone spikes), this dinosaur-sized rodents certainly compared with the offspring of a multi-ton armored her from the late Cretaceous period, such as Ankylosaurus and Euoplocephalus .