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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.

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Ornithopoda

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Representative silhouette for Ornithopoda
4Direct child groups
7Countries represented
164–66 MaDataset range

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

Cretaceous

Doolysaurus huhmini

A juvenile, small-bodied thescelosaurid from South Korea whose partly hidden skull and skeleton were revealed in three dimensions by computed-tomography scans.

omnivore~1 m

Jurassic

Dryosaurus altus

A lightly built Late Jurassic herbivore from the Morrison Formation, with long hind limbs, a balancing tail and a small beaked head.

herbivore~3 m

Jurassic

Camptosaurus dispar

A robust Late Jurassic plant-eater from the Morrison Formation, built for powerful hind-limb movement and efficient cropping with a deep beak and ridged cheek teeth.

herbivore~6 m

Cretaceous

Iguanodon bernissartensis

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.

herbivore~9 m

Cretaceous

Parasaurolophus walkeri

A rare Canadian hadrosaur with a long, backward-projecting tubular crest. Its exceptionally important holotype preserves a complete skull and a partial skeleton, including healed injuries that the animal survived.

herbivore~9 m

Cretaceous

Corythosaurus casuarius

A large Canadian duck-billed dinosaur whose hollow, helmet-shaped crest enclosed long looping nasal passages and whose holotype preserves skin impressions.

herbivore~9 m

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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