Scutosaurus

Scutosaurus; Temporal range: Lopingian; ~
	Skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History with an upright posture
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	†Parareptilia
Order:	†Procolophonomorpha
Clade:	†Pareiasauria
Genus:	†Scutosaurus; Hartmann-Weinberg, 1930
Species:	†S. karpinskii
Binomial name
	†Scutosaurus karpinskii; (Amalitskii, 1922)
Synonyms
	List Pariasaurus karpinskyi ; (Watson, 1917); Pareiosaurus karpinskii ; (Amalitskii, 1922); Pareiosaurus elegans ; (Amalitskii, 1922); Pareiosaurus tuberculatus ; (Amalitskii, 1922); Pareiosaurus horridus ; (Amalitskii, 1922); Pareiosaurus karpinskyi ; (Hartmann-Weinberg, 1929); Scutosaurus karpinskyi ; (Hartmann-Weinberg, 1930); Proelginia permiana ; (Hartmann-Weinberg, 1937); Scutosaurus permiana ; (Efremov, 1940); Scutosaurus permicus ; (Kuhn, 1969); Scutosaurus tuberculatus ; (Ivakhnenko, 1987); Scutosaurus permianus ; (Ivakhnenko, 1987); Scutosaurus itilensis ; (Ivakhnenko, 1987); ;

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. 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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