New work on Scelidisaurus

[ceratopsian]

Professor Norman has been working on Scelidosaurus. Here's a link to a layperson's account.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/scelidosaurus

[DinoToyForum]

Professor Norman has been working on Scelidosaurus. Here's a link to a layperson's account.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/scelidosaurus

So great to see his work come to fruition, this has been a looooooong time coming, he's been working on this for literally decades.

[suspsy]

Scelidosaurus has long struck me as a criminally overlooked genus. I think it's great that Norman is doing all this; it may end up being the crowning glory of his lengthy career. And naturally, I would like to see some new toys of Scelidosaurus in the future.

[ceratopsian]

Absolutely. I was lucky enough to hear him give a lecture about his research last autumn.  It was fascinating. He was an excellent speaker.

Now all we want is a really good model with those horns at the back of the head!

Professor Norman has been working on Scelidosaurus. Here's a link to a layperson's account.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/scelidosaurus

So great to see his work come to fruition, this has been a looooooong time coming, he's been working on this for literally decades.

[Halichoeres]

Thanks for posting, this really is an amazing body of work. I'm working through the dermal skeleton paper as part of my summer vacation.

Scelidosaurus has long struck me as a criminally overlooked genus. I think it's great that Norman is doing all this; it may end up being the crowning glory of his lengthy career. And naturally, I would like to see some new toys of Scelidosaurus in the future.

Yes, with luck this will be the impetus for a new figure or three! CollectA seems like a likely culprit given Beeson's involvement and its being an English taxon.

[Sim]

I'd like a bipedal Scelidosaurus figure.  There's a trackway from Poland that shows a scelidosaur like animal walking bipedally.  Also at the end of one of the new papers on Scelidosaurus it says

Although quadrupedal, this animal was only facultatively so, judged by its forelimb-to-hindlimb proportions and structure; it therefore betrays bipedality in its ancestry.

  (Image source)

[Shonisaurus]

@ceratopsian Thanks for the link and the news about the scelidosaurus. Let's hope that Collecta makes an updated figure of the scelidosaurus, it is an unfair figure that is very little treated in the dinosaur toy market, considering that it would be a commercial success from my point of view if figure reproductions of that beautiful European dinosaurs were made. I hope Collecta, Safari, Papo, Schleich, Nanmu, Mojo, Rebor or PNSO would be welcomed by many of the forum members.

[DinoToyForum]

Absolutely. I was lucky enough to hear him give a lecture about his research last autumn.  It was fascinating. He was an excellent speaker.

Now all we want is a really good model with those horns at the back of the head!

Professor Norman has been working on Scelidosaurus. Here's a link to a layperson's account.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/scelidosaurus

So great to see his work come to fruition, this has been a looooooong time coming, he's been working on this for literally decades.

About those horns on its head... I drew this way back in 2002 when I was an undergraduate:

I might have been the first person to depict Scelidosaurus this way.
And the CollectA model has them but the model is a bit cartoony: http://dinotoyblog.com/2009/10/05/scelidosaurus-collecta/

[DinoToyForum]

Oh, and I'm definitely the only one to depict Scelidosaurus like this, with hypothetical keratin extensions on its horns. 

Again, 2002!

[ceratopsian]

@dinotoyforum - oh yes! The CollectA model does!

I'm intrigued. Did you add the (short) horns because of examination of fossil material or because they seemed plausible?

[Halichoeres]

Those are nice drawings! I'm imagining the long-horned one getting caught in a thicket, though.

[DinoToyForum]

@dinotoyforum - oh yes! The CollectA model does!

I'm intrigued. Did you add the (short) horns because of examination of fossil material or because they seemed plausible?

I was aware of the undescribed (until now) fossil material showing the short horns and unique armour arrangement. As I say, these papers have been a long time in the making. One of the specimens was subsequently put on display in the Bristol Museum since around 2004, if I recall correctly.

[DinoToyForum]

Those are nice drawings! I'm imagining the long-horned one getting caught in a thicket, though.

It was a bit of a tongue in cheek suggestion, but not impossible. Animals don't always make sense!

[ceratopsian]

Thank you for satisfying my curiosity.

@dinotoyforum - oh yes! The CollectA model does!

I'm intrigued. Did you add the (short) horns because of examination of fossil material or because they seemed plausible?

I was aware of the undescribed (until now) fossil material showing the short horns and unique armour arrangement. As I say, these papers have been a long time in the making. One of the specimens was subsequently put on display in the Bristol Museum since around 2004, if I recall correctly.

[Tyto_Theropod]

Wow, Dr Admin!  I did not know you could draw so well!  Those are really nice pictures.  I love all the detail and the way you've really managed to convey depth with that shading.  The dip in the back on the first one looks a big weird, but other than that these are really nice representations of a dinosaur as a living, breathing animal.  And I suppose you could say that the one with the big horns was you doing an All Yesterdays approach before it was cool...!

[DinoToyForum]

Thanks @Tyto_Theropod! My artwork thread is here: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=75.0

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread. Now, I hand you all back over to Scelidosaurus...

[Shonisaurus]

I wish Mr. Administrator that the scelidosaurus that you have masterfully drawn corresponds with reality as a result of new scientific discoveries and that Collecta, Safari or another brand could recreate it in figure, sincerely it would be interesting a scelidosaurus as you have drawn captured in toy figure although did not correspond to reality.

[Libraraptor]

A man like Dr. Norman who dedicates his time examining seemingly nondescript, but in truth highly underestimated species like Scelidosaurus and puts thoroughness above pop-star appeal, has all my respect! I like Dr. Norman ever since I saw him for the first time under the Berlin Brachiosaurus in the TV show Dinosaur!

[DinoToyForum]

I wish Mr. Administrator that the scelidosaurus that you have masterfully drawn corresponds with reality as a result of new scientific discoveries and that Collecta, Safari or another brand could recreate it in figure, sincerely it would be interesting a scelidosaurus as you have drawn captured in toy figure although did not correspond to reality.

It doesn't. Here is the juiciest bit of Norman's new work, the updated restoration of Scelidosaurus armour: