Definition of Stegosauria. Meaning of Stegosauria. Synonyms of Stegosauria

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Definition of Stegosauria

Stegosauria
Stegosauria Steg`o*sau"ri*a, n. pl. [NL. See Stegosaurus.] (Paleon.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.

Meaning of Stegosauria from wikipedia

- Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jur****ic and early Cretaceous periods. Stegosaurian fossils have been...
- form a grade leading to Ankylosauria and Stegosauria, or are instead sister to Ankylosauria with Stegosauria being more basal than either of them. These...
- early Early Jur****ic origin for both Ankylosauria and its sister group Stegosauria. The vast majority of stegosaurian dinosaurs thus far recovered belong...
- Edwin Hennig in 1915. Often thought to be a "primitive" member of the Stegosauria, several recent cladistic analyses find it as more derived than many...
- Upper Shaximiao Formation in what is now China. It is a member of the Stegosauria. According to Dong e.a. the Chungkingosaurus jiangbeiensis holotype was...
- family of thyreophoran dinosaurs (armoured dinosaurs) within the suborder Stegosauria. The clade is defined as all species of dinosaurs more closely related...
- known basal thyreophorans, either closely related to Ankylosauria or Stegosauria+Ankylosauria. A full-grown Scelidosaurus was rather small compared to...
- 16(402): 435 Hennig, E., 1915, Stegosauria: Fossilium Catalogus I, Animalia pars 9, p. 1-16 Maidment, S. C. R., 2010, "Stegosauria: a historical review of the...
- indicated that Gigantspinosaurus is the most basal known member of the Stegosauria. A 2018 redescription by Hao et al clarified aspects of the anatomy and...
- et al. (2024) recovered Yanbeilong as a deeply-nested member of the Stegosauria, as the sister taxon to a clade containing Stegosaurus stenops and Wuerhosaurus...