clade · 20 represented species
Neornithischia contains many small-bodied early plant-eaters as well as the later ornithopod and marginocephalian radiations.
Definition
Neornithischia contains many small-bodied early plant-eaters as well as the later ornithopod and marginocephalian radiations.
A clade contains an ancestor and all of its descendants. The exact membership of Neornithischia can differ between published analyses, particularly where fossils are incomplete or character interpretations change.
Name meaning: Reliable information is currently unavailable.
Branch structure
Representative taxa
A large Early Cretaceous herbivore with a thumb spike, a weight-bearing three-fingered hand and a famous Belgian fossil record of about thirty articulated skeletons. Those fossils transformed Iguanodon from a fragmentary curiosity into one of the first well-understood dinosaurs.
Distribution
South Korea · Belgium · Canada · United States · Niger · Australia · Mongolia
Country-level summary of represented seed records, not a complete range map.
No specific uncertainty note is currently recorded. This does not mean every interpretation is settled.
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