Thyreophora definitions

Thyreophora

1) Animal order 2) Suborder thyreophora 3) Thyreophoran
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Thyreophora

1) Thyreophoran
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The Thyreophora (`shield bearers`, often known simply as `armored dinosaurs` - Greek: θυρεος, a large oblong shield, like a door and φορεω, I carry) were a subgroup of the ornithischian dinosaurs. They were armored herbivorous dinosaurs, living from the early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous. Thyreophorans are characterized ...
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Thyreophora

(from the article `dinosaur`) The Thyreophora consist mainly of the well-known Stegosauria, the plated dinosaurs, and Ankylosauria, the armoured dinosaurs, as well as their more ... The ornithischians can be divided into two distinct subgroups: Cerapoda and Thyreophora. The cerapods are further subdivided into the Ornithopoda, ... [2...
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Thyreophora

(pronounced thii-RE-ah-FOR-ah) Thyreophorans meaning shield bearers) were armored, plated, and/or spiked ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the early Jurassic to the late Cretaceous period . These quadrupedal (four-legged) plant-eaters included Scutellosaurus, Scelidosaurus, ankylosaurs and stegosaurs.
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