Sentences with phrase «called ornithischians»

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«The carnivorous theropods were more closely related to the herbivorous ornithischians and, what's more, some animals, such as Diplodocus, would fall outside the traditional grouping that we called dinosaurs.

Instead, researchers placed theropods with ornithischians, forming a group called Ornithoscelida, and put sauropodomorphs with the early and primitive herrerasaurs.

They all belong to a new ornithischian called Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, which lived 160 million years ago.

If these bristly structures represented early feathers, as researchers have increasingly come to think, it would mean that feathers evolved in dinosaurs that preceded the evolutionary split between so - called saurischians (which include the meat - eating species) and ornithischians (which comprise plant - eating species) more than 200 million years ago.

A second line of so - called bird - hipped, or ornithischian dinosaurs, led to a widely differing group of animals that included the stegosaurs and duckbilled dinosaurs.