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Ornithischia

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Noun1.Ornithischia - extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods)
order Ornithischia
animal order - the order of animals
Archosauria, subclass Archosauria - a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts
ornithischian, ornithischian dinosaur - herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird
genus Pisanosaurus - primitive ornithischian dinosaur found in Argentina; early Triassic
genus Staurikosaurus - primitive ornithischian dinosaur found in Brazil
suborder Thyreophora, Thyreophora, thyreophoran - armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs
Marginocephalia, marginocephalian, suborder Marginocephalia - includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs
euronithopod, Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda - widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon)
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Names of the most common dinosaurs are categorized into two orders such as Ornithischia and Saurischia.
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The second group, Ornithischia, included armoured dinosaurs such as Tricerotps and Stegosaurus, and was not -- despite the misleading name -- thought to include anything even remotely birdlike.
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Here is some background information on the Chinese dinosaurs, who, like other dinos, belong to two orders: Ornithischia (bird-hipped), which were four-legged plant-eaters and Saurischia (lizard-hipped), which included two-legged meat-eaters (theropods) and four-legged plant-eaters (sauropods).
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