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Ornithischia: References

Abbreviated Dendrogram
DINOSAUROMORPHA
|--+--THEROPODA
|  `--SAUROPODOMORPHA
|
ORNITHISCHIA
|--Fabrosauridae
`--+--Thyreophora
   |  |--Stegosauria
   |  `--Ankylosauria
   `--Cerapoda
       |--Ornithopoda
       |  |==Hypsilophodontidae
       |  `--Hadrosauridae
       `--+--Heterodontosauridae
          `--Marginocephalia
             |--Pachycephalosauria
             `--Ceratopsia
Contents

Overview
Ornithischia
Thyreophora
Stegosauria
Ankylosauria
Ornithopoda - Hypsilophodonts
Iguanodontia
Hadrosauroidea
Heterodontosauridae
Marginocephalia
Pachycephalosauria
Ceratopsia
Classification
Dendrogram
References


References


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Ouranosaurus

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Heterodontosauridae.

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Hadrosauridae

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Heterodontosauridae - Phylogeny

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Agilisaurus, Heterodontosaurus

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Eocursor

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Ankylosauria.

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Ankylosauria.

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Genasauria

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Genasauria

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Genasauria

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Heterodontosauridae.

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Eurypoda; Huayangosauridae; Stegosauria, Stegosauridae.

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Huayangosauridae, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae

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Ouranosaurus.

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Ornithischia Classification

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Rhabdodontidae

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Ouranosaurus.

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Muttaburrasaurus.

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Altirhinus, Hadrosauridae, Hadrosauroidea, Nanyangosaurus, Ouranosaurus.

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Altirhinus

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Agilisaurus

Norman, DB & DB Weishampel (1990), Iguanodontidae and related ornithopods in DB Weishampel, P Dodson, & H Osmólka (eds.), The Dinosauria. Univ. Calif. Press, pp. 510-533.
Ouranosaurus.

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Genasauria.

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Agilisaurus, Heterodontosaurus, Ornithischia Classification

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Heterodontosaurus

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Ankylosauria, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae, Thyreophora.

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Agilisaurus

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Genasauria.

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Eurypoda, Genasauria.

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Huayangosauridae, Stegosauria.

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Heterodontosauridae.

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Muttaburrasaurus.

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Ouranosaurus

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Ankylosauria.

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Ouranosaurus.

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Heterodontosauridae.

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Hadrosauridae, Ouranosaurus.

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Agilisaurus

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Eocursor

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Agilisaurus

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Tianyulong




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