Definition of Silesaurids. Meaning of Silesaurids. Synonyms of Silesaurids

- that most or all silesaurids comprised an early diverging clade or a paraphyletic grade within ornithischian dinosaurs. Silesaurids have a consistent...
- various authors to be either a silesaurid or basal ornithischian, was found to be intermediate between the grade of silesaurids and true ornithischians, explaining...
- snout. It was fairly basal among silesaurids, and retained some dinosaur-like features absent in advanced silesaurids, such as a supratemporal fossa and...
- did not find silesaurids to be basal dinosaurs, due to their lacking some important features of that group, and suggested that silesaurids and ornithischian...
- hypothesis. Silesaurid-like traits, for example, may be dinosaurian plesiomorphies (ancestral conditions) rather than unique characteristics of silesaurids. A...
- Probable non-dinosaur dinosauromorphs include the diverse and widespread silesaurids, as well as more controversial and fragmentary taxa such as Marasuchus...
- include the flying pterosaurs, small bipedal lagerpetids, herbivorous silesaurids, and the incredibly diverse dinosaurs, which survive to the present day...
- synapomorphies previously suggested. Some of these are also present in silesaurids, which Nesbitt recovered as a sister group to Dinosauria, including a...
- number of recent studies, these taxa, along with other "traditional" silesaurids, are treated as a paraphyletic grade of ornithischians. The results of...
- Systematic position after Nesbitt (2011): Herbivory has been suggested for silesaurids in general and Silesaurus in particular based on tooth shape, and a 2014...