Glyptosaurus ( glipto saurus)

[Gr. glyptos, curved, and sauros, a lizard.] ( Palseon.) A genus of fo il land lizards, discovered in 1871 by Dr. Marsh, of Yale College, in the tertiary deposits of Wyoming, and so named in allusion to the fact that the head and parts of the body were covered with highly ornamented bony plates. Four species have been described, which are readily distinguished by the form and ornamentation of the shields on the head. The largest of these, G. sylvestris, was about 4 feet in length; the smallest, G. anceps, apparently about 2 feet. Gnadenhutten, in Ohio, a post-village of Clay township, Tuscarawas co.