marginocephalian

English

Etymology

Marginocephalia +‎ -an

Adjective

marginocephalian (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Of or relating to the Marginocephalia, a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.

Noun

marginocephalian (plural marginocephalians)

  1. (zoology) Any member of the Marginocephalia.
    • 2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0147031:
      Thus, they were able to corroborate previous hypotheses of overrepresentation of nodosaurid ankylosaurs and hadrosaurid ornithopods in marine sediments, whilst they also found that marginocephalians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, sauropods, and supposedly herbivorous theropods were positively associated with terrestrial paleoenvironments.
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