Armoured dinosaurs were some of the earliest dinosaurs named, including the ankylosaur Hylaeosaurus in 1833 and Stegosaurus in 1877. This title provides descriptions of the original specimens of Hyaleosaurus and Stegosaurus, names fresh thyreophorans, and also describes historically important specimens from Europe.

Lockley, Richard T. McCrea, Christian A. Meyer, Ralph E. Molnar, David B. Norman, Paul Penkalski, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, A. P. Russell, N. Rybczynski, Leonardo Salgado, Jennifer Schellenbach, and M. K. Vickaryous.

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Walter P. Coombs, Jr.: an Affectionate Perspective. Margery Chalifoux Coombs. Part I. Thyreophorans Scelidosaurus, the Earliest Complete Dinosaur David B. NormanTooth Wear and Possible Jaw Action of Scelidosaurus harrisonii Owen and a Review of Feeding Mechanisms in Other Thyreophoran Dinosaurs Paul M. BarrettPart II. Stegosauria New Primitive Stegosaur From The Morrison Formation, Wyoming Kenneth Carpenter, Clifford A. Miles, and Karen ClowardOthniel Charles Marsh and the Myth of the Eight-spiked Stegosaurus Kenneth Carpenter and Peter M. GaltonEndocranial Casts of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus (Upper Jurassic, Western
Usa): a Complete Undistorted Cast and the Original Ones of Othniel Charles Marsh Peter M. GaltonPossible Stegosaur Dermal Armor from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern England William T. BlowsPost-traumatic Chronic Osteomyelitis in Stegosaurus Dermal Spikes Lorrie A. McWhinney, Bruce M. Rothschild and Kenneth CarpenterPart III. AnkylosauriaSouth American Ankylosaurs Rodolfo A.Coria and Leonardo SalgadoSkull of the Polacanthid Ankylosaur Hylaeosaurus armatus Mantell 1833 From the Lower Cretaceous of England Kenneth CarpenterReappraisal of the Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel from the Upper Cretaceous Gosau Beds of Austria Xabier Pereda Suberbiola and Peter M. GaltonDisarticulated Skull of a New Primitive Ankylosaurid From the Lower Cretaceous of Eastern Utah Kenneth Carpenter, James I. Kirkland, Don Burge and John Bird Carlsbad Ankylosaur (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria): An Ankylosaurid And Not a Nodosaurid Tracy L. Ford and James I. KirklandVariation in Specimens Referred to Euoplocephalus tutus Paul PenkalskiEvidence of Complex Jaw Movement in the Late Cretaceous
Ankylosaurid, Euoplocephalus tutus (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) N. Rybczynski and M.K. VickaryousCranial Ornamentation of Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora): Re-appraisal of
Developmental Hypotheses M.K. Vickaryous, A.P. Russell, and P.J Currie Armor of the Small Ankylosaur, Minmi Ralph E. MolnarDermal Armor of the Polacanthine Dinosaurs William T. BlowsMounted Skeleton of the Polacanthine Ankylosaur Gastonia burgei Robert W. Gaston, Jennifer Schellenbach, and James I. Kirkland An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia Ralph E. Molnar &
H. Trevor CliffordGlobal Distribution of Purported Ankylosaur Track Occurrences Richard T. McCrea, Martin G. Lockley, and Christian A. MeyerPhylogenetic Analysis of the Ankylosauria Kenneth Carpenter