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Ankylosauridae (/ˌæŋkɪloʊˈsɔːrɪdiː/) is a
family of
armored dinosaurs within Ankylosauria, and is the
sister group to Nodosauridae. The
oldest known ankylosaurids...
- Cretaceous. The two main
families of ankylosaurians,
Nodosauridae and
Ankylosauridae primarily originated from the
Northern Hemisphere (North America, Europe...
- the
source of the
genus name.
Ankylosaurus is a
member of the
family Ankylosauridae, and its
closest relatives appear to be
Anodontosaurus and Euoplocephalus...
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traditionally regarded as a
monophyletic clade as the
sister taxon to the
Ankylosauridae, some
analyses recover it as a
paraphyletic grade leading to the ankylosaurids...
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present concept. In 1917,
Charles Whitney Gilmore ****igned it to the
Ankylosauridae. Today,
Euoplocephalus is
still seen as an ankylosaurid, but as a member...
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configuration is not
unique for
Pinacosaurus but a
synapomorphy of the
Ankylosauridae as a whole. In 2015, a
juvenile specimen was
described showing a complex...
- macua****tl-like tails) †Nodosauridae (mostly spiky, club-less ankylosaurs) †
Ankylosauridae (characterized by flat scutes) †Ankylosaurinae (club-tailed ankylosaurids)...
- (2007). "A new
species of the
ankylosaurid dinosaur Crichtonsaurus (
Ankylosauridae:Ankylosauria) from the
Cretaceous of
Liaoning Province, China". Acta...
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Stegosauridae †Infraorder
Ankylosauria †Family
Nodosauridae †Family
Ankylosauridae †Suborder
Cerapoda †Infraorder
Pachycephalosauria †Infraorder Ceratopsia...
- known.
Saichania was more
robustly built than
other members of the
Ankylosauridae,
measuring 5–7
metres (16–23 ft) in
length and 1.4–2.0
metric tons (1...
