thyreophora

It would then be one of the oldest known Thyreophora.

In the same year, he corrected the subgroups of Thyreophora.

Denversaurus is the latest known member of the Thyreophora.

They are the sister group of the Thyreophora within the clade Genasauria.

Its back was armoured, and it is placed in the Thyreophora with the other armoured dinosaurs.

(The name Thyreophora is also used for a dinosaur suborder.)

The Stegosaurs were a group of dinosaurs in the suborder Thyreophora.

Ankylosaurs were armoured dinosaurs of the suborder Thyreophora.

Ankylosauria and Stegosauria are now grouped together within the clade Thyreophora.

Earth dinosaurs include members of the thyreophora suborder, such as Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus.

It was the first specimen of a member of the Thyreophora discovered in the Southern Hemisphere.

It is contained within the group Thyreophora, which also includes the stegosaurs, armored dinosaurs known for their combination of plates and spikes.

Genasaurian ornithischians are divided into two clades: the Thyreophora and the Cerapoda.

Now it is treated as an infraorder or suborder (or simply a clade) within Thyreophora, the armoured dinosaurs.

Stegosaurus was a member of the Thyreophora, or armored dinosaurs, a family of dinosaurs which includes the ankylosaurs.

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Clade Thyreophora (armored herbivores)

The following cladogram shows the position of Dacentrurus armatus within the Thyreophora according to Maidment (2010):

The infraorder Stegosauria lies within the Thyreophora, or armored dinosaurs, a suborder which also includes the more diverse ankylosaurs.

Like all Thyreophora, stegosaurians were protected by bony scutes that were not part of the skeleton proper but skin ossifications instead: the so-called osteoderms.

Though in 1978 synonymised with Hylaeosaurus, Polacanthoides is today considered a nomen dubium, an indeterminate member of the Thyreophora.

Suborder Thyreophora ("shield-bearers", armored herbivorous dinosaurs)

Cladistic analyses showed that Emausaurus was a basal member of the Thyreophora, more derived than Scutellosaurus, but less than Scelidosaurus.

The evolution of a quadrupedal posture occurred four times, among the ancestors of Euornithopoda, Thyreophora, Ceratopsia and Sauropodomorpha.

The Thyreophora, the larger group they belong to, originally seem to have had nine neck vertebrae and this is also the number shown by the basal stegosaurian Huayangosaurus.