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 thyreophora.
The statue of Hylaeosaurus, the first named thyreophoran, at Crystal Palace Park
Thyreophora is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs united by, and named for, the presence ossified armor which forms parasagittal rows on the dorsal side of the animal. They were among the first dinosaurs known to science, with the genus Hylaeosaurus being one of the first genera referred to "Dinosauria" by Sir Richard Owen alongside Megalosaurus and Iguanodon in the early 19th century.[1] However, the clade thyreophora itself was recognized in 1915 by Franz Nopcsa. It was created to include the stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, and a few other primitive armored animals like Scelidosaurus and was named after the Greek words for "shield-bearer".[2]
This is the longest-lived individual clade of ornithischians. They first appear at the very start of the Jurassic as small, bipedal animals,[3] similar to all other ancestral dinosaurs. However, they radiated very quickly and were the second group of herbivorous dinosaurian megafauna to evolve (after the sauropods).[4] There was some apparent decline in their diversity with the extinction of the stegosaurids in the early Cretaceous,[5] but this was followed by the emergence of two lineages of megafaunal ankylosaurs (nodosauridae and ankylosauridae), which both persisted to the very end of the Cretaceous.[6] Thyreophorans were cosmopolitan in their distribution, and their remains can be found on every continent, including Antarctica.[7]
^Dennis R. Dean, 1999, Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs, Cambridge University Press, 315 pp
^Cite error: The named reference struthi5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference BUN08 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference Maidmentetal2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Archangelsky, Sergio. "The Ticó Flora (Patagonia) and the Aptian Extinction Event." Acta Paleobotanica 41(2), 2001, pp. 115–22.
^Carpenter, K. (2001). "Phylogenetic Analysis of the Ankylosauria". In Carpenter, Kenneth (ed.). The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press. p. 455. ISBN 0-253-33964-2.
^Olivero, E.; Gasparini, Z.; Rinaldi, C.; Scasso, R. (1991). "First record of dinosaurs in Antarctica (Upper Cretaceous, James Ross Island): paleogeographical implications". In Thomson, M.R.A.; Crame, J.A.; Thomson, J.W. (eds.). Geological Evolution of Antarctica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 617–622.
and 29 Related for: List of thyreophoran type specimens information
This listofspecimens is a comprehensive catalogue of all the typespecimens and their scientific designations for each of the genera and species that...
ornithopod typespecimensListof other ornithischian typespecimensListofthyreophorantypespecimens This article includes a species-related listof lists...
This listofspecimens is a comprehensive catalogue of all the typespecimens and their scientific designations for each of the genera and species that...
This listofspecimens is a comprehensive catalogue of all the typespecimens and their scientific designations for each of the genera and species that...
below: thyreophoroi, Greek soldiers bearing a thyreos shield Listofthyreophorantypespecimens Raven, T. J.; Barrett, P. M.; Joyce, C. B.; Maidment, S....
This listofspecimens is a comprehensive catalogue of all the typespecimens and their scientific designations for each of the genera and species that...
Martill, D.M., Batten, D.J., and Loydell, D.K. (2000). A New Specimenof the Thyreophoran Dinosaur cf. Scelidosaurus with Soft Tissue Preservation. Palaeontology...
dubious genus of extinct thyreophoran ornithischian dinosaur described by Roman Ulansky. The type and only species is "S. minimus" of the lower Jurassic...
Pereda-Suberbiola X (2022). "A new Cretaceous thyreophoran from Patagonia supports a South American lineage of armoured dinosaurs". Scientific Reports. 12...
the only known Toarcian thyreophoran, as well as the only dinosaur from the zone of the same age with a formal name. The type and only species, E. ernsti...
studied specimen had a growth rate similar to those of the Patagonian abelisaurids. A study on the skeletal pathologies affecting known specimensof brachyrostran...
Megapnosaurus), and the early thyreophoran Scutellosaurus lived in North America. The latter is believed to have been the ancestor of all stegosaurs and ankylosaurs...
(Thyreophora) The largest thyreophorans were Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus, from the Late Cretaceous and Late Jurassic periods (respectively) of what is now North...
skoo-TEL-oh-SOR-əs) is a genus ofthyreophoran ornithischian dinosaur that lived approximately 196 million years ago during the early part of the Jurassic Period...
basal thyreophoran, showing a single thyreophorean synapomorphy; a ventrally deflected mesial end of the dentary. If considered a thyreophoran, it would...
three hadrosaurid specimens from the Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation (Alberta, Canada), with two specimens preserving integument of the manus showing...
Formation of China. Stegosaurians were armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans). Originally, they did not differ much from more primitive members of that group...
hands and forearms of Triceratops retained a fairly primitive structure when compared to other quadrupedal dinosaurs, such as thyreophorans and many sauropods...
419 specimen loans, shipping over 42,000 specimens to researchers, per its Annual Report. The collection specimens are an important cornerstone of research...
Megalosaurus, Duriavenator and Proceratosaurus, as well as indeterminate thyreophorans and paravians. The environment in which Cetiosaurus lived was floodplain...
219 Jurassic West Foster (2007) pg. 219 attributes most Drinker nisti specimens to Como Bluff, which is in Wyoming. See figure 1.2 on Jurassic West page...
landmass for much of the Mesozoic (See Listof Indian and Madagascan Dinosaurs for a listof Dinosaurs from India). This list does not include dinosaurs that...
review ofspecimens described by Huene and Matley (1933)", Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 6(1): 67-103 New materials of Masiakasaurus...
Wellnhoferia grandis: May be another specimenof Archaeopteryx. This is a timeline of selected dinosaurs from the list above. Time is measured in Ma, megaannum...
Bienosaurus (meaning "Bien's lizard") is a dubious genus ofthyreophoran dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic (probably Sinemurian) Lower Lufeng Formation...
Global Information