Heterodontosauriformes

Heterodontosauriformes
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Reconstruction of Fruitadens
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Heterodontosauriformes Xu et al., 2006
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Heterodontosauriformes was a proposed group of herbivorous dinosaurs within the order Ornithischia. The taxon was named by Xu et al. in 2006 to group the suborder Marginocephalia with the family Heterodontosauridae (previously classified as ornithopods), after the discovery of Yinlong suggested the two were closely related.[1] However, later studies failed to recover the group and it has been largely abandoned.[2]

References

  1. ^ Xu X., X.; Forster, C.A.; Clark, J.M.; Mo J. (2006). "A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 273 (1598): 2135–2140. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3566. PMC 1635516. PMID 16901832.
  2. ^ Fenglu Han; Catherine A. Forster; Xing Xu; James M. Clark (2017). "Postcranial anatomy of Yinlong downsi (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation of China and the phylogeny of basal ornithischians". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1369185.



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