Sentences with phrase «hipped ornithischians»
Since 1887, dinosaurs have been divided into two major groups, namely the lizard - hipped saurischians and the bird - hipped ornithischians.
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However, the re-grouping of dinosaurs proposed in this study shows that both ornithischians AND theropods had the potential to evolve a bird - like hip arrangement - they just did so at different times in their history.
Despite having a beak and being an ornithischian, or «bird - hipped» dinosaur, the animal isn't closely related to the lineage that evolved into birds.
On the other side of the divide, «bird - hipped» ornithischians included beaked plant - eaters such as Triceratops.
Harry Seeley, a British paleontologist, first proposed the split of saurischians and ornithischians back in 1887, with the classifications based on the shape of the hips of the dinosaurs.
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.