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Marginocephalia
Temporal range: Upper Jurassic – Upper Cretaceous
Triceratops side view.jpg
Skull of Triceratops
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
Cerapoda
(unranked):
Marginocephalia

Sereno, 1986
Infraorders

Ceratopsia
Pachycephalosauria

Marginocephalians (meaning "fringed heads") are a group of Ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaurs that have a distinctive skull structure (a slight shelf or bony frill on the back of the skull), a unique palate (part of the mouth) and a short pubis (part of the hip).

Description

These herbivores include the ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, Styracosaurus, Pentaceratops, and Protoceratops) and the pachycephalosaurians (thick-skulled dinosaurs like Stegoceras and Pachycephalosaurus).

See also

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