This list of specimens is a comprehensive catalogue of all the type specimens and their scientific designations for each of the genera and species that are included in the clade ornithopoda.
An early depiction of Iguanodon from the late 19th century
Ornithopoda is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes some of the most common and widespread Mesozoic animals including iguanodonts, hadrosaurs, and some animals formerly called "hypsilophodonts". The clade was named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1881[1] and roughly means "bird feet". This name is reflective of the tridactyl feet of most ornithopods, which are superficially similar to many birds. Ornithopods were among the first dinosaurs known to scientists. The first species to be described was Iguanodon, which was described in 1825 by Sir Richard Owen.[2] Today, they collectively comprise the most diverse ornithischian group.[3][4]
The exact origin of ornithopods is uncertain. Some authors consider very primitive ornithischians like Nanosaurus, Hypsilophodon, and Jeholosaurus to be ornithopods,[5] while others do not.[6] Most ornithischians were ancestrally small and bipedal, which makes the taxonomy of these species complex and uncertain.[7][8] However, they are generally agreed to have originated by the middle Jurassic and shortly thereafter, they proliferated to most of the world's continents.[9] Ornithischians in general, but especially ornithopods, saw a large degree of diversification during the early Cretaceous.[10] This culminated in the proliferation of the giant hadrosaurs across the Northern Hemisphere and even into Africa[11] and South America.[12] Ornithopod remains are known from all of the world's continents, including Antarctica.[13]
^Marsh, O. C. (1882). "Classification of the Dinosauria". American Journal of Science. 23 (133): 81–86. Bibcode:1882AmJS...23...81M. doi:10.2475/ajs.s3-23.133.81. S2CID 130836648.
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^Dieudonné, P. -E.; Cruzado-Caballero, P.; Godefroit, P.; Tortosa, T. (2021). "A new phylogeny of cerapodan dinosaurs". Historical Biology. 33 (10): 2335–2355. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1793979. S2CID 221854017.
^Madzia, Daniel; Boyd, Clint A.; Mazuch, Martin (2017). "A basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian of the Czech Republic". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (11): 967–979. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1371258. S2CID 90008574.
^Ibiricu, Lucio M.; Martínez, Rubén D.; Lamanna, Matthew C.; Casal, Gabriel A.; Luna, Marcelo; Harris, Jerald D.; Lacovara, Kenneth J. (2010). "A Medium-Sized Ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Bajo Barreal Formation of Lago Colhué Huapi, Southern Chubut Province, Argentina". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 79: 39–50. doi:10.2992/007.079.0103. S2CID 53407321.
^Rotatori, Filippo Maria; Moreno-Azanza, Miguel; Mateus, Octávio (2020). "New information on ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Portugal". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 65. doi:10.4202/app.00661.2019. hdl:10362/127574. S2CID 146510209.
^Medrano-Aguado, E.; Parrilla-Bel, J.; Gasca, J.M.; Alonso, A.; Canudo, J.I. (2023). "Ornithopod diversity in the Lower Cretaceous of Spain: New styracosternan remains from the Barremian of the Maestrazgo Basin (Teruel province, Spain)". Cretaceous Research. 144: 105458. Bibcode:2023CrRes.14405458M. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105458. S2CID 255177225.
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^Brett-Surman, M. K. (1979). "Phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of hadrosaurian dinosaurs". Nature. 277 (5697): 560–562. Bibcode:1979Natur.277..560B. doi:10.1038/277560a0. S2CID 4332144.
^Olivero, E.B.; Ponce, J.J.; Marsicano, C.A.; Martinioni, D.R. (2007). "Depositional settings of the basal Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Maastrichtian, Antarctica". Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina. 62 (4): 521–529.
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