Back سكوتوصور Arabic Escutosaure Catalan Scutosaurus Czech Scutosaurus German Σκουτόσαυρος Greek Scutosaurus Spanish اسکوتوسور Persian Scutosaurus French סקוטוזאורוס HE Scutosaurus Hungarian
| Scutosaurus Temporal range: Lopingian
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| Skeleton of Scutosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History with upright posture | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Clade: | †Pareiasauria |
| Genus: | †Scutosaurus Hartmann-Weinberg, 1930 |
| Species: | †S. karpinskii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Scutosaurus karpinskii (Amalitskii, 1922)
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Scutosaurus ("shield lizard") is an extinct genus of pareiasaur parareptiles. Its genus name refers to large plates of armor scattered across its body. It was a large anapsid reptile that, unlike most reptiles, held its legs underneath its body to support its great weight.[2] Fossils have been found in the Sokolki Assemblage Zone of the Malokinelskaya Formation in European Russia, close to the Ural Mountains, dating to the late Permian (Lopingian) between 264 and 252 million years ago.
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