It was not until in 2006 when researchers made its neotype designation. It was later designated as the neotype for the species. Replacement of unidentifiable name-bearing type by a neotype. Apart from the neotype, other fossils are known of "Scelidosaurus". Wellnhofer therefore considered the specimen lost, and designated a neotype. In 1967 with Jennie Robinson (Neotype Cattery) of New York. Its destruction motivated Peter Wellnhofer to assign a neotype in 1970. A complete skeleton first referred to "S. guilelmi" has been designated the neotype of "Simosaurus". The dentary was made the neotype specimen after a 2009 petition to the ICZN. McPartland & Goff selected a neotype strain that makes "T. beigelii" synonymous with "Trichosporon cutaneum".