Parankylosauria is a group of basal ankylosaurian dinosaurs known from the Cretaceous of South America, Antarctica, and Australia. It is thought the group split from other ankylosaurs during the mid-Jurassic period, despite this being unpreserved in the fossil record.[1]
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Parankylosauria is a group of basal ankylosaurian dinosaurs known from the Cretaceous of South America, Antarctica, and Australia. It is thought the group...
are primarily known from the Northern Hemisphere, but the more basal Parankylosauria are known from southern Gondwana during the Cretaceous. Ankylosauria...
Antarctopelta is the only known ankylosaur from Antarctica and a member of Parankylosauria. The only described specimen was found in 1986, the first dinosaur...
presumably connect the plates to the skin. Those notches are typical for Parankylosauria. Thus, a flexible armor was formed. Thirteen "free" vertebrae have...
matrix. Based on these updates, they recovered Patagopelta within the Parankylosauria, along with other Cretaceous Gondwanan ankylosaurs. Their results are...
distinctive basal lineage of Southern Hemisphere ankylosaurs, the Parankylosauria. Their phylogenetic analyses placed it as the sister taxon to the clade...
most basal nodosaurid, but a 2021 study found it to belong to the Parankylosauria, a separate basal lineage of ankylosaurs restricted to the Southern...
(Antarctica), and provide support for its phylogenetic position within the Parankylosauria. A review of Early Cretaceous Spanish styracosterns from the Maestrat...
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