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Clade placed with the Dinosauria that is one of the two defining all dinosaurs. Characterized by a hip arrangement that has the pubis together with the ischium and pointing posteriorly.
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An order of the dinosaurs.
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extinct terrestrial reptiles having birdlike pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); bone-headed and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods)
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a science word that means "bird-hip." It refers to the group of dinosaurs that includes the ankylosaurs, ornithopods, stegosaurs, and ceratopsians.
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"bird hipped." A branch of the Dinosauria that contains all of the herbivorous dinosaurs with the exception of the Sauropods.
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'Bird hipped'. One of the main divisions of dinosaurs, in which two of the bones in the hip pint backward, as in birds. See also classification of the dinosaurs.
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