| Scolosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Skeletal mount of the S. thronus holotype at the Royal Tyrell Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
| Family: | †Ankylosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Ankylosaurinae |
| Tribe: | †Ankylosaurini |
| Genus: | †Scolosaurus Nopcsa, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| †Scolosaurus cutleri | |
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Scolosaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid dinosaurs within the subfamily Ankylosaurinae. It is known from the lower levels of the Dinosaur Park Formation and upper levels of the Oldman Formation in the Late Cretaceous (latest middle Campanian stage, about 76.5 Ma ago) of Alberta, Canada. It contains two species, S. cutleri and S. thronus.[2][1] The type species, S. cutleri, measured up to 5.6 metres (18 ft) in length and 2.2 metric tons (2.4 short tons) in body mass.[3]
- ^ a b Paul Penkalski (2018). "Revised systematics of the armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus and its allies". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 287 (3): 261–306. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2018/0717.
- ^ Penkalski, P.; Blows, W. T. (2013). "Scolosaurus cutleri (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 50 (2): 130110052638009. Bibcode:2013CaJES..50..171P. doi:10.1139/cjes-2012-0098.
- ^ Paul, Gregory S. (2016). The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-78684-190-2. OCLC 985402380.