Definition of ankylosaur
: any of a suborder (Ankylosauria) of herbivorous Cretaceous ornithiscian dinosaurs having a long low-lying thickset body covered dorsally with bony plates
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Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
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Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
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Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
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The operator had just extracted a bit of fossilized skin from an armored nodasaurus, a type of ankylosaur.
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Switek explains that during decomposition the armor plates of ankylosaurs typically fall off and are often washed away or not found.
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Arbour has named a few new ankylosaurs before: Crichtonpelta, after the Jurassic Park author and the Greek word for a small shield; Zaraapelta, after the Mongolian word for hedgehog; and Ziapelta, after the Zia people of New Mexico.
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Complete fossils of ankylosaurs are, for some reason, very difficult to find.
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Granted, avian dinosaurs are still fluttering about, but all the fantastic non-avian forms – the sauropods, tyrannosaurs, ankylosaurs, ceratopsids, and kin – disappeared forever in one of the worst natural calamities of all time.
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Origin and Etymology of ankylosaur
New Latin Ankylosauria, from Ankylosaurus
ANKYLOSAUR Defined for Kids
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: a plant-eating dinosaur with bony plates covering the back
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