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Thyreophora
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Thyreophora ("shield bearers"), often known simply as armored dinosaurs is a group of armored ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the Early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- dinosaur
- Parent taxon
- Genasauria
- Image
- Patagopelta Skeletal.svg
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- start time
- 199600000-
- end time
- 66000000-0
- temporal range start
- Jurassic
- temporal range end
- Cretaceous
- Commons category
- Thyreophora
- taxon name
- Thyreophora
- taxon rank
- suborder
- topic's main category
- Category:Thyreophora
- topic has template
- Template:Ankylosauria
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- Phylogeny
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Thyreophora ("shield bearers"), often known simply as armored dinosaurs is a group of armored ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the Early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous.
Thyreophorans are characterized by the presence of body armor lined up in longitudinal rows along the body. Primitive forms had simple, low, keeled scutes or osteoderms, whereas more derived forms developed more elaborate structures including spikes and plates. Most thyreophorans were herbivorous and had relatively small brains for their body size.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thyreophora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.