- that most or all
silesaurids comprised an
early diverging clade or a
paraphyletic grade within ornithischian dinosaurs.
Silesaurids have a consistent...
-
various authors to be
either a
silesaurid or
basal ornithischian, was
found to be
intermediate between the
grade of
silesaurids and true ornithischians, explaining...
- Müller
described Gondwanax paraisensis as a new
genus and
species of
silesaurids based on
these fossil remains. The
generic name, Gondwanax, combines...
- snout. It was
fairly basal among silesaurids, and
retained some dinosaur-like
features absent in
advanced silesaurids, such as a
supratemporal fossa and...
- did not find
silesaurids to be
basal dinosaurs, due to
their lacking some
important features of that group, and
suggested that
silesaurids and ornithischian...
-
Probable non-dinosaur
dinosauromorphs include the
diverse and
widespread silesaurids, as well as more
controversial and
fragmentary taxa such as Marasuchus...
-
number of
recent studies,
these taxa,
along with
other "traditional"
silesaurids, are
treated as a
paraphyletic grade of ornithischians. The
results of...
- hypothesis.
Silesaurid-like traits, for example, may be
dinosaurian plesiomorphies (ancestral conditions)
rather than
unique characteristics of
silesaurids. A...
-
include the
flying pterosaurs,
small bipedal lagerpetids,
herbivorous silesaurids, and the
incredibly diverse dinosaurs,
which survive to the
present day...
-
synapomorphies previously suggested. Some of
these are also
present in
silesaurids,
which Nesbitt recovered as a
sister group to Dinosauria,
including a...
