Ankylopollexia
extinct clade of ornithopod dinosaurs
Ankylopollexia is an extinct clade of dinosaurs within the Ornithischia. They lived from 156 to 66 million years ago.[1] The name stems from the Greek word, “ankylos”, meaning stiff, fused, and the Latin word, “pollex”, meaning thumb.[2] One of the most famous and most derived members of the Ankylopollexia clade is the Iguanodon. The Hadrosaurs are also in this group.
Ankylopollexia Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Late Cretaceous,
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Mantellisaurus skeleton, Natural History Museum, London | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | †Ornithischia |
Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | †Dryomorpha |
Clade: | †Ankylopollexia Sereno, 1986 |
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