- Many cervical and dorsal scutes have been preserved alongside species of " Struthiosaurus ".
- It is quite possible that small ovoid scutes found on " Struthiosaurus " could have formed a pelvic shield like polacanthids.
- The group was represented by the single genus " Struthiosaurus ", known from head, cervical, dorsal, sacral, and caudal scutes.
- They range from " Europelta " at 112 Ma to " Struthiosaurus ", which lived until the uppermost Cretaceous, or 66 Ma.
- The three valid species of " Struthiosaurus " differ from one another in that " S . austriacus " is smaller than " S . transylvanicus " and possesses less elongate cervical vertebrae.
- Cladistic analysis of " Struthiosaurus " ( 謘i, 2005 ) indicates that the taxon is a basal member of the Nodosauridae and suggests it may be one of the most basal ankylosaurs in the clade Ankylosauria.
- The type species is " Mochlodon suessi " . " Mochlodon " and " Struthiosaurus ", the latter found at the same site, are the only dinosaur genera named from Austrian finds.
- In 1871, he described a skull fragment found in an Austrian coal mine years before by colleagues Ferdinand Stoliczka and Eduard Suess as the type specimen for the dinosaur genus " Struthiosaurus ", the first discovered in the region.
- Cladistic analysis on the taxon indicates that it is a basal member of the Nodosauridae, more derived than " Struthiosaurus " ( another European nodosaurid ), yet still more primitive than North American forms such as " Silvisaurus ", " Sauropelta ", and " Pawpawsaurus ".
- However, by the latest Cretaceous, nodosaurids were scarce in western North America, limited to forms like " Edmontonia ", " Denversaurus " and " Panoplosaurus "; perhaps due to competition from the ankylosauridae; though it should be noted they did thrive in isolation, most notably in Appalachia, as mentioned earlier and in the case of " Struthiosaurus ", Europe as well.