#scolosaurus

Scolosaurus. Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.

Triceratops horridus

The drab palette of the body was inspired by mammalian megafauna, primarily rhinocerotes. The blue colouration was inspired by the colourfulness of birds, but there was no specfic reference in-mind. This was meant to be an older bull; I imagine females would have less colourful frills, as bright ornaments are usually secondary sex characteristics.

Camptosaurus dispar

Colouration innspired by the Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros). Depicted individual is female.

Scolosaurus cutleri

Colour pattern was not referenced from any specific aninimal. This individual was inteded to be a female, I imagine males would be more brightly-coloured.

Heterodontosaurus tucki

Dinovember Day 6: Scolosaurus

A Scolosaurus’ mid-day drink is interrupted by the croaking of a frog.

Scolosaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaur that lived in the Cretaceous Canada 76.5 mya. There are two species of Scolosaurus: S. cutleri and S. Thronus.

By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable

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Name: Scolosaurus cutleri

Name Meaning: Pointed Stake Reptile

First Described: 1928

Described By: Nopcsa

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae, Ankylosaurini

Scolosaurus is an Ankylosaurin from the Dinosaur Park Formation, as well as the Judith River Formation and the Two Medicine Formation, in Alberta Canada and Montana. It lived approximately 76.5 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. It is the oldest known Ankylosaurid from North America, known from multiple specimens including one that is nearly complete. Though thought to be a species of Euoplocephalus for a while, it was eventually found to be distinct; though still closely related to Euoplocephalus and in the group of Ankylosaurids most closely related to Ankylosaurus itself. 

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart

Scolosaurus had long, backswept cheek horns, and it had conical osteoderms on the back of the tail, as well as a circular tail club knob (as opposed to the dorito-shaped knob of Anodontosaurus.) It lived in an environment surrounded by rivers and deltas near the Western Interior Seaway, also near the rocky mountains. It lived in a seasonal, semi-arid climate, with rain shadows and a long dry season, as well as warm temperatures. It lived alongside many other dinosaurs in its formations such as Hypacrosaurus, Acristavus, Gryposaurus, Brachylophosaurus, Gilshades, Prosaurolophus, Maiasaura, Edmontonia, Caenagnathus, Chirostenotes, Orodromeus, Achelousaurus, Brachyceratops, Cersinops, Einiosaurus, Prenoceratops, Rubeosaurus, Troodon, Bambiraptor, Saurornitholestes, Apatornis, Avisaurus, Daspletosaurus, and Gorgosaurus, as well as many different types of other kinds of reptiles, several mammals, amphibians, and fish. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolosaurus

Arbour, V. M, & P. J. Currie. 2015. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1059985

Gorgosaurus and Scolosaurus. Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.

Tyrannosaurus Rex and Scolosaurus from Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.

Its ankylosaurus week! had a hard time figuring out which Ankylosaurid to draw but I decided to go with Scolosaurus

Originally I was going for a more muted colour scheme but I really cant resist wild colours