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Definition of ankylosaur in English: ankylosaurnounˈaŋkɪləsɔːˈaNGkiləˌsôr A heavily built quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous period, armoured with bony plates. 甲龙 Infraorder Ankylosauria, order Ornithischia: several genera, in particular Ankylosaurus Example sentencesExamples - Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs.
- Most recently, a new ankylosaur was named on the basis of an incomplete mandible and fragmentary cranial material, but the ankylosaurian affinities and validity of this taxon are doubtful.
- Living at the same time as Utahraptor was a dinosaur that belonged to the tanklike armadillo shaped ankylosaurs called Gastonia.
- Skeletons range from twelve-foot remains of the armored dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs, with almost every piece of bony plate intact, to two-inch skeletons of early mammals, complete down to their fragile, microscopic ear bones.
- The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
- These early ankylosaur or glyptodont analogues often had widely-flared skulls, ornamented with irregular blobs of bone, looking like half-melted wax.
- These were the fragmentary remains of an armored dinosaur, an ankylosaur.
OriginEarly 20th century: from modern Latin Ankylosaurus, from Greek ankulos (see ankylosis) + sauros 'lizard'. Definition of ankylosaur in US English: ankylosaur(also ankylosaurus) nounˈaNGkiləˌsôr A heavily built quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur primarily of the Cretaceous period, armored with bony plates. 甲龙 Infraorder Ankylosauria, order Ornithischia: several genera, in particular Ankylosaurus Example sentencesExamples - These early ankylosaur or glyptodont analogues often had widely-flared skulls, ornamented with irregular blobs of bone, looking like half-melted wax.
- Most recently, a new ankylosaur was named on the basis of an incomplete mandible and fragmentary cranial material, but the ankylosaurian affinities and validity of this taxon are doubtful.
- These were the fragmentary remains of an armored dinosaur, an ankylosaur.
- Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs.
- Living at the same time as Utahraptor was a dinosaur that belonged to the tanklike armadillo shaped ankylosaurs called Gastonia.
- The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
- Skeletons range from twelve-foot remains of the armored dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs, with almost every piece of bony plate intact, to two-inch skeletons of early mammals, complete down to their fragile, microscopic ear bones.
OriginEarly 20th century: from modern Latin Ankylosaurus, from Greek ankulos (see ankylosis) + sauros ‘lizard’. |