Thyreophora
dinosaur suborder
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major reference
- In dinosaur: Thyreophora
The Thyreophora consist mainly of the well-known Stegosauria, the plated dinosaurs, and Ankylosauria, the armoured dinosaurs, as well as their more basal relatives, including Scutellosaurus and Scelidosaurus. Scutellosaurus was a small bipedal dinosaur, only about a metre (3.3 feet ) in length, known from…
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ornithischians
- In ornithischian
subgroups: Cerapoda and Thyreophora. The cerapods are further subdivided into the Ornithopoda, Pachycephalosauria, and Ceratopsia, though some authorities link the Pachycephalosauria and Ceratopsia together in a group called Marginocephalia. The Thyreophora consisted of the
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