Dinosauria — Scelidosaurus, etc. 
19 
Fig. 21. — A single 
upper tooth of Sceli- 
dosaurus Ifarrisoni 
(Owen) twice nat. size, 
from the Lower Lias, 
Charmouth, Dorset. 
A large plated Dinosaur lias been dis- 
covered in a tolerably perfect state, and is 
placed in a glazed case in the centre of the 
Reptile gallery. 
It was obtained from the Lower Lias of 
Lyme Regis, Dorset, and is a fairly complete 
skeleton of an herbivorous Dinosaur about 12 
feet in length, closely allied by its dentition to 
lgucinodon, and described by Sir Richard Owen 
as Scelidosaurus Harrisoni. This reptile was 
armed with lateral rows of thick bony scutes or 
spines on each side, which extended along the 
tail also. There is very considerable disparity 
between the fore and hind-limbs, as in so many 
There are four functional toes and one 
on the hind foot; the fore-foot is not well 
be 
other Dinosaurs, 
rudimentary one 
preserved and the number of digits cannot consequently 
clearly made out in the hand. 
Scelidosau- 
rus, Case Y, 
on Plan. 
•Fig. 22. — Restored skeleton of Scelidosaurus Harrisoni (Owen), greatly reduced, from 
the Lower Lias of Charmouth, Dorset. The figure shows the large lateral dermal 
spines on the shoulders, and the long lateral line of smaller spines, reaching from the 
pectoral region to the extremity of the tail ; also the numerous ossified tendons 
running along the sides of the dorsal spines of the vertebral from the shoulder to the 
tail. (The original specimen is about 12 feet in length.) 
A smaller Dinosaur, named Acanthopholis , found in the Lower Acantbo- 
-Chalk of Dover, was also armed with spines, but only a few pholis. 
fragmentary remains of it are preserved in the collection. 
3 2 
Table-case, 
No. 1. 
