Ornithodira

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) + δειρή (deirḗ, “throat”).

Proper noun

Ornithodira

A taxonomic clade within the class Reptilia.

Hypernyms

(clade): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Eureptilia, Romeriida - clades; Diapsida - subclass; Archosauromorpha - infraclass; Archosauria - division

Hyponyms

Cladogram after Nesbitt (2011):

'Avemetatarsalia'

Ornithodira

'Pterosauromorpha' (=Pterosauria)

'Dinosauromorpha'

'Lagerpetonidae'

'Dinosauriformes'

Dinosauria

Ornithischia

Saurischia

	Theropoda (ancestral to birds)

	Sauropodomorpha

References

Ornithodira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ornithodira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Ornithodira at Encyclopedia of Life
Ornithodira at Paleobiology Database

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