Euronithopoda (Noun)
Meaning
Widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon).
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The euronithopoda is an evolutionary offshoot of the much larger ornithischian superorder that dates back to the late Triassic period.
- Key characteristics defining euronithopoda have allowed researchers to differentiate this group from related suborders.
- Members of the euronithopoda suborder existed worldwide, yet were not universally contemporaneous across geographies where fossil records have been discovered.
- Skeletal remains indicate that euronithopoda animals evolved to accommodate herbivorous eating habits.
- The most widely-recognized fossil of the euronithopoda group belongs to the well-documented Iguanodon lineage of prehistoric creatures.