ornithischian dinosaur

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ornithischian dinosaur - herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird

dinosaur - any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era

order Ornithischia, Ornithischia - extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods)

pisanosaur, pisanosaurus - primitive dinosaur found in Argentina

staurikosaur, staurikosaurus - primitive dinosaur found in Brazil

armored dinosaur - dinosaurs having bony armour

bone-headed dinosaur - bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns

ceratopsian, horned dinosaur - any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia

ornithopod, ornithopod dinosaur - bipedal herbivorous dinosaur

duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaur, hadrosaurus - any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic

References in periodicals archive ?

An ornithischian dinosaur from the Sustut Basin, north-central British Columbia, Canada.

A hadrosaurid (dinosauria: ornithischia) from the late cretaceous (campanian) Kanguk formation of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada, and its ecological and geographical implications

(1980): The Ornithischian Dinosaur Camptosaurus prestwichii from the Upper Jurassic of England.

Vertebrate fauna at the Allosaurus fossil-site of Andres (Upper Jurassic), Pombal, Portugal/La fauna de vertebrados del yacimiento con Allosaurus de Andres (Jurasico Superior), Pombal, Portugal

She says that in addition to being an ornithischian dinosaur, it was also a member of a family of dinosaurs called heterodontosaurids, meaning "different-toothed lizards."

Scientists unearth fossil of 150 mln yr old squirrel-sized dino

Its pelvis is reminiscent of ornithischian dinosaurs with beaks, like Stegosaurus, and its wide, four-toed hind feet are similar to those of the massive, "lizard-footed" sauropods like Brontosaurus.