Dinosauria

Biology Encyclopedia	Dinosauria Owen, 1842 “terrible lizard”
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Common Names

Dinosaurs

Latin Synonyms

Linnaean Rank

Superorder

Ancestral Phylogeny and Taxonomy

Archosauria	Crurotarsi	†Doswellia kaltenbachi
		Crocodylotarsi	†Phytosauria
			Suchia	†Prestosuchidae
				Rauisuchiformes	†Aetosauria
					Rauisuchia	†Rausuchidae
						Paracrocodylomorpha	†Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum
							†Poposauridae
							Bathyotica	†Erpetosuchus granti
								Crocodylomorpha
	Ornithodira	†Pterosauromorpha
			†Pterosauria
		Dinosauromorpha	†Lagerpeton canarensis
			Dinosauriformes	†Marasuchus lilloensis
					†Pseudolagosuchus major
						†Silesaurus opolensis
							†Eucoelophysis baldwini
							†Herrarasauria
							Dinosauria

Explanation of phylogenetic trees

Lineage

Terrabiota, Cytota, Neomura, Eukaryota, Unikonta, Opisthokonta, Animalia, Metazoa, Eumetazoa, Bilateria, Deuterostomia, Cyrtotreta, Chordata, Notochordata, Vertebrata, Gnathostomata,, Teleostomi, Euteleostomi, Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha, Tetrapoda, Reptilomorpha, Cotylosauria, Amniota, Sauropsida, Diapsida, Neodiapsida, Sauria, Archosauromorpha, Archosauriformes, Archosauria, Ornithodira, Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes

Descendant Phylogeny and Taxonomy

Dinosauria	†Ornithischia	†Pisanosaurus mertii
			†Heterodontosauridae
			†Genasauria	†Cerapoda	†Ornithopoda
					†Marginocephala	†Pachycephalosauria
						†Ceratopsia
				†Thyreophora	†Scutellosaurus
					†Thyreophoroidea	†Emausaurus
						†Eurypoda
	Saurischia	†Sauropodomorpha	†Saturnalia tupiniquim
				†Thecodontosaurus antiquus
					†Efraasia minor
						†Prosauropoda
						†Sauropoda
		Theropoda	†Ceratosauria
			Tetanurae	†Spinosauroidea	†Megalosauridae
					†Spinosauridae
				Avetheropoda	†Carnosauria	†Allosauroidea
					Coelurosauria

Explanation of phylogenetic trees

Morphology

Distribution

Ecology

Ethology

Evolution

Development

Ethnobiology

Population

Notes and Comments

References

Literature

Weishampel, D.B., P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska. 2004. The Dinosauria, Second Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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