193 million years ago a dinosaur roamed old Wessex; 160 years ago this dinosaur was dug up and sketched, as the “Scelidosaur”. But, as with Schliemann at Hisarlik, this was done before the standards were set down.
Unlike with Schliemann, the original remains were not destroyed. (The preparatory papers on it, further, didn’t fly into flights of fancy.) So now a full study is made in accordance with the best current knowledge of how the “bird hipped” and the “lizard hipped” clades worked, soon after the Triassic extinction. (Since 2017 we branch off a "sauropod" group during the Triassic; the first lizard hipped dinos. Their bird-hip siblings later gave rise to therapods. Therapods although sometimes looking like lizard-hips include actual birds. Anyway Scelidosaur is not a therapod, just a bird hip.)
This guy (or girl) turns out to be an ancestor to the famed Ankylosaur, he of the knobbly tail. The ancestor to the Stegosaur will have branched off before 193 mya although, it is a bird hip as well.
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