Thorough evaluation of fossils finally place Scelidosaurus in the dinosaur family tree
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When the bones of the early armoured dinosaur Scelidosaurus were unearthed in 1858 in England, they comprised the first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified. But aside from cursory papers by British paleontologist Richard Owen in 1861 and 1863 that incompletely described its anatomy, Scelidosaurus was long neglected but with the first thorough evaluation of its fossils finally gave Scelidosaurus its place on the dinosaur family tree.