clade · 10 represented species
ornithopoda is an evolutionary group represented in the dinosaur phylogenetic tree. Its exact boundaries may vary between scientific analyses.
Definition
ornithopoda is an evolutionary group represented in the dinosaur phylogenetic tree. Its exact boundaries may vary between scientific analyses.
A clade contains an ancestor and all of its descendants. The exact membership of Ornithopoda 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
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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