Dinosaurs Types
Dinosaurs are often classified into two categories by the arrangement of their hip bones.
| Dinosaur Clade | |
| Meat-eating | Theropods |
| Plant-eating | Sauropods |
The ornithopods and the plated, armoured, and horned dinosaurs belonged to the group of dinosaurs known as the ornithischians, which mostly consumed plants.
Some of dinosaurs types:
- Marginocephalians
- An hip issue
- Threophorans
- Ornithopodos
- Sauropodomorphs
- Theropods
Following is a brief information about each one of those types:
- Marginocephalians:
The
horned and frilled ceratopsians and the dome-head pachycephalosaurs
were the two main groupings that comprised the marginocephalians.
While pachycephalosaurs were smaller and perhaps omnivores, meaning
they consumed both plants and meat, ceratopsians were massive
herbivores. - An hip issue:
Based
on the structure of their hip bones, saurischians and ornithischians
may be distinguished. The pubis, one of the hip bones of
saurischians, points forward. However, the pubis developed to point
backward in several saurischians, including a number of theropods
and birds. The ornithischians, whose hip bones were all pointing
backward, likewise developed this pubic orientation. - Threophorans:
The
stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, and a few near cousins belonged to this
group. In all thyreophorans, armour in the form of osteoderms
protruded from the skin. - Ornithopodos:
Hundreds
of plant-crushing teeth and ostentatious crests were features of
some of these herbivores. Research points to ornithopods being
sociable animals that gathered in herds - Sauropodomorphs:
The
majority of this group possessed a characteristic long neck and
walked on four legs, despite the fact that early species were
bipedal—they walked on two legs.The biggest animals that have ever
walked the earth were formerly part of a subgroup called the
sauropods. - Theropods:
Bipedal
dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds in the end. Though some
theropods evolved to feed just plants, many were predators and
consumed flesh.