- 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...
- 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...
-
skull than most
silesaurids, as is the case in Lewisuchus, but they are not as
numerous as
those of that taxon. Like
other silesaurids,
Kwanasaurus has...
-
synapomorphies previously suggested. Some of
these are also
present in
silesaurids,
which Nesbitt recovered as a
sister group to Dinosauria,
including a...
- (ankylothecodont), a
characteristic trait of
silesaurids.
Unlike the
typically leaf-shaped
teeth of
other silesaurids, the
teeth of
Soumyasaurus are
smooth and...
- relationships)
grouped it with the most
derived silesaurids from the Late Tri****ic. The
closest silesaurid in both
space and time to
Lutungutali is Asilisaurus...
- 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...
