Ankylosauria is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the clade Ornithischia. It includes the great majority of dinosaurs with armor in the form of bony...
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a complete skeleton has not been discovered. Though other members of Ankylosauria are represented by more extensive fossil material, Ankylosaurus is often...
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Ankylosauridae (/ˌæŋkɪloʊˈsɔːrɪdiː/) is a family of armored dinosaurs within Ankylosauria, and is the sister group to Nodosauridae. The oldest known ankylosaurids...
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brains for their body size. Thyreophora includes two major subgroups, Ankylosauria and Stegosauria. In both clades, the forelimbs were much shorter than...
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uncertain. In 1978 Coombs assigned it to the Nodosauridae within the Ankylosauria. This is still a usual classification, Hylaeosaurus being recovered as...
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K., Maryanska, T., and Weishampel, D. B. (2004). Chapter Seventeen: Ankylosauria. in The Dinosauria (2nd edition), Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., and...
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Late Cretaceous Period. It is part of the Nodosauridae, a family within Ankylosauria. It is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation...
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Coombs, Jr. (1978). "The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria". Palaeontology. 21 (1): 143–170. Lull, R. S. (1921). The Cretaceous...
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kirtlandensis, gen et sp nov., a new ankylosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia; Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation (Upper Campanian), San...
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Euoplocephalus is still seen as an ankylosaurid, but as a member of the Ankylosauria, not the Stegosauria. It is likely also a member of the derived subgroup...
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along with the family Ankylosauridae, belong within the infraorder Ankylosauria. Nodosaurids are characterized by certain features of the skull, including...
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of a member of Ankylosauria; the author argued that this finding indicates a probable early Early Jurassic origin for both Ankylosauria and its sister...
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1998 Kirkland established three characters which were unique for the Ankylosauria as a whole and thus likely autapomorphies, unique derived traits. On...
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understood, until Coombs in 1978 placed in the Nodosauridae within a larger Ankylosauria. In 1996 Kenneth Carpenter e.a. refined this to the Polacanthinae. An...
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Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum within the family Ankylosauridae of the Ankylosauria and are in agreement with most previous phylogenetic hypotheses, which...
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group of Nodosauridae within Nodosauroidea that would not have been Ankylosauria, but the last surviving Stegosauria. However, these hypotheses have not...
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was a tabular bone, otherwise unknown in dinosaurs, proving that the Ankylosauria had independently evolved from the Aetosauria, a hypothesis today entirely...
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tail was considered to be strictly distinctive. Unlike all other known Ankylosauria, the tail is short with no more than twenty-six caudal vertebrae, the...
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Chordata Clade: Dinosauria Clade: †Ornithischia Clade: †Thyreophora Clade: †Ankylosauria Family: †Nodosauridae Subfamily: †Nodosaurinae Genus: †Borealopelta Brown...
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should be considered a valid taxon. In 1980, Molnar placed Minmi in the Ankylosauria. In 1987, he thought it was a member of the Nodosauridae. In 2011, a...
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the known basal thyreophorans, either closely related to Ankylosauria or Stegosauria+Ankylosauria. A full-grown Scelidosaurus was rather small compared to...
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double-headed ribs. In fact the ribs were those of Struthiosaurus. In Ankylosauria, the rump is so flat that the upper part of the rib shafts sticks out...
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described, Antarctopelta was placed at an indeterminate level within Ankylosauria but was stated to have similarities with both nodosaurids and ankylosaurids...
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Emausaurus Scelidosaurus Scutellosaurus Yuxisaurus Jakapil Ankylosauria see Ankylosauria Stegosauria see Stegosauria...
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Chordata Clade: Dinosauria Clade: †Ornithischia Clade: †Thyreophora Clade: †Ankylosauria Family: †Ankylosauridae Subfamily: †Ankylosaurinae Tribe: †Ankylosaurini...
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all armored and quadrupedal taxa, many of which are now separated into Ankylosauria. Ankylosaurs were only recognized as a distinct group from stegosaurs...
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ankylosaurid dinosaur Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus Parks, 1924 (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) and a revision of the genus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29...
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Chordata Clade: Dinosauria Clade: †Ornithischia Clade: †Thyreophora Clade: †Ankylosauria Family: †Ankylosauridae Genus: †Huaxiazhoulong Zhu et al., 2024 Species:...
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loosely placed it into Nodosauridae. They conceded this binary division of Ankylosauria may not be entirely sound, meaning Liaoningosaurus could represent some...
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Chordata Clade: Dinosauria Clade: †Ornithischia Clade: †Thyreophora Clade: †Ankylosauria Family: †Ankylosauridae Subfamily: †Ankylosaurinae Genus: †Datai Species:...
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