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Ornithopoda
Ornithopoda Or`ni*thop"o*da, n. pl. [NL. See Ornitho-, and -poda.] (Paleon.) An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.

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- Ornithopoda (/ˌɔːrnəˈθɒpədə/) is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods (/ˈɔːrnəθəˌpɒdz, ɔːrˈnɪθ-/). They represent one of the most successful...
- reflective of the tridactyl feet of most ornithopods, which are superficially similar to many birds. Ornithopods were among the first dinosaurs known to...
- Jung-Kyun Kim; Jong-Deock Lim; Pascal Godefroit (2011). "A new basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of South Korea" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch...
- a clade of ornithopods known from Cretaceous deposits in South America, Antarctica, and Australia that contains many bipedal ornithopods that were previously...
- dinosaurs (Thyreophora) such as stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, and the ornithopods. There is strong evidence that certain groups of ornithischians lived...
- Chakisaurus (meaning "elder guanaco lizard") is an extinct genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous ****ncul Formation of Argentina. The...
- Oblitosaurus (meaning "forgotten lizard") is a genus of ankylopollexian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Jur****ic Villar del Arzobispo Formation of Spain...
- runner", ma****da meaning "mountain" in Mapudungun) is a genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Santonian Bajo de la Carpa Formation of the Neuquén...
- dinosaurs, such as the sauropods, the theropods, the thyreophorans, and the ornithopods. Other animals, such as some crocodylomorphs and the first birds, appeared...
- for bony plates on its thorax, it was identified as a large species of ornithopod. The species would be described and named Macrogryphosaurus gondwanicus...