Ornithischia

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Ornithischia - extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods)

order Ornithischia

animal order - the order of animals

Archosauria, subclass Archosauria - a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts

ornithischian, ornithischian dinosaur - herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird

genus Pisanosaurus - primitive ornithischian dinosaur found in Argentina; early Triassic

genus Staurikosaurus - primitive ornithischian dinosaur found in Brazil

suborder Thyreophora, Thyreophora, thyreophoran - armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs

Marginocephalia, marginocephalian, suborder Marginocephalia - includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs

euronithopod, Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda - widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon)

References in periodicals archive ?

Titled "A new small-bodied ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from a deep, high-energy Early Cretaceous river of the Australian6Antarctic rift system," the (https://peerj.com/articles/4113) open-access paper appeared online in the journal PeerJ.

New Turkey-Sized Bipedal Dinosaur Fossil Found In Australia

In 1888, it was decided by Harry Seeley, a well known paleontologist, that dinosaurs should be divided into two major groups based on the shape of their hips- the bird-hipped (Ornithischia) and the lizard-hipped (Saurischia).

Rewriting The Dinosaur Tree

(2014): A new dryosaurid ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal.

Systematic review of late Jurassic Sauropods from the Museu Geologico Collections (Lisboa, Portugal)

However, these resemblances are plesiomorphic in nature (Sereno 1991), and the teeth from the Scots Bay Member cannot be identified more precisely than Ornithischia. Some postcranial bones originally assigned to ornithischian dinosaurs on their specimen labels, such as vertebral centra (YPM VP 008693a, b) and possible rib fragments (YPM VP 008694, VP 008695), show no features supporting such an identification.

Stratigraphic and temporal context and faunal diversity of Permian-Jurassic continental Tetrapod assemblages from the Fundy rift basin, eastern Canada

Basal ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) teeth from the Prince Creek Formation (early Maastrichtian) of Alaska.

A hadrosaurid (dinosauria: ornithischia) from the late cretaceous (campanian) Kanguk formation of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada, and its ecological and geographical implications

Paleobiogeography of the Hadrosaurs (Dinosauria: Ornithischia).

A new lungfish dipnoi: ceratodontidae from the cretaceous woodbine formation, Arlington archosaur site, north Texas

Here is some background information on the Chinese dinosaurs, who, like other dinos, belong to two orders: Ornithischia (bird-hipped), which were four-legged plant-eaters and Saurischia (lizard-hipped), which included two-legged meat-eaters (theropods) and four-legged plant-eaters (sauropods).

When dinosaurs dominated: ancient creatures arrive from China: A new exhibition "tells the story of how the planet changed while dinosaurs ruled the Earth--and how this affected the evolution of dinosaurs and other life

According to an Argentine press release, the 70-million-year-old fossil fragments belonged to a small, armored herbivore of the order Ornithischia. The fossil shows that Antarctica was warmer when the animal lived than it is today, according to the Argentine scientists.

Antarctic dinosaur fossil

Although the Chilesaurus was originally classified as a type of theropod, the scientists are now saying that it is "the earliest diverging member of Ornithischia" and in that position, in the other major group of dinosaurs, it might help the experts understand how its kind evolved.