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- noun zoology Any of the
dinosaurs of thefamily Ankylosauridae.
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I did try to get some reading done, more of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us and a paper in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on the ankylosaurid Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus.
2010, whether we like it or not. greygirlbeast 2010
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I did try to get some reading done, more of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us and a paper in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on the ankylosaurid Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus.
2010, whether we like it or not. greygirlbeast 2010
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Although an apparent explosion of dinosaur diversity occurred in the mid-Cretaceous, coinciding with the emergence of new groups e.g. neoceratopsians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, hadrosaurids and pachycephalosaurs, results from the first quantitative study of diversification applied to a new supertree of dinosaurs show that this apparent burst in dinosaurian diversity in the last 18 Myr of the Cretaceous is a sampling artefact.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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Nodosaurid ankylosaurs and hadrosaurids show significant positive associations with marine sediments, while marginocephalians (Ceratopsia, Pachycephalosauria), saurischians (herbivorous theropods, Sauropoda) and ankylosaurid ankylosaurs are significantly positively associated with terrestrial sediments.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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T. rex suggest that the biggest tyrants might still have been able to do serious, fatal damage to an ankylosaurid.
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T. rex suggest that the biggest tyrants might still have been able to do serious, fatal damage to an ankylosaurid.
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These later turned out to be from an ankylosaurid (probably
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These later turned out to be from an ankylosaurid (probably
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