Cerapoda
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Skull of Udanoceratops |
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| Lower Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous (Hettangian to Maastrichtian) | ||||||||||||
| 201.3 to 66 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Cerapoda | ||||||||||||
| Sereno , 1986 |
The Cerapoda are a taxon of the bird basin dinosaurs (Ornithischia) established by Sereno in 1986 . Cerapoda have an intermaxillary bone (premaxillary) with fewer than six teeth, a strong diastema ( Greek for "space") and asymmetrical tooth enamel on the teeth in the upper and lower jaw.
Systematics
The Cerapoda includes the Ornithopoda and the Pachycephalosauria and Ceratopia , which together form the taxon Marginocephalia . Its sister taxons are the Thyreophora , which include the armored dinosaur taxa Stegosauria and Ankylosauria .
- Pelvic dinosaur (Ornithischia)
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- ^ Gregory S. Paul : The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , pp. 214–316, Online ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Palæos.com Cerapoda
- ↑ David B. Weishampel , Peter Dodson , Halszka Osmólska (eds.): The Dinosauria . 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 .
Web links
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