clade · 15 represented species
Ornithopoda
Ornithopoda is a lineage of beaked herbivorous ornithischians ranging from small bipeds to large, often facultatively quadrupedal iguanodontians and hadrosaurs.
Definition
Characteristics and significance
Ornithopods developed increasingly effective chewing systems, culminating in the dense dental batteries of hadrosaurids.
- Beaked jaws with plant-processing cheek teeth
- Powerful hind limbs
- Complex dental batteries in hadrosaurids
Name meaning: Bird feet
Branch structure
Direct branches in this dataset
Representative taxa
Dinosaurs in this branch
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
Geographic record
South Korea · United States · Belgium · Canada · Russia · Niger · Australia
Country-level summary of represented seed records, not a complete range map.
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