They all belong to
a new ornithischian called Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, which lived 160 million years ago.
Not exact matches
This
new analysis of dinosaurs and their near relatives, published today in the journal Nature, concludes that the
ornithischians need to be grouped with the theropods, to the exclusion of the sauropodomorphs.
First thought to be a theropod, a
new study suggests it's an
ornithischian.
It shuffled the three big groups around, putting
ornithischians and theropods together into a
new group and suggesting that sauropods had split off earlier.
Now
new fossils suggest that the other major group, the
ornithischians, also bore feathers.
In Baron's redrawn dinosaur family tree, the saurischians now only include the sauropodomorphs, and the theropods were grouped with
ornithischians to form a
new classification named ornithoscelidans.