Rhabdodontomorpha
Appearance
Rhabdodontomorpha | |
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Muttaburrasaurus mount at the Queensland Museum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | † Iguanodontia
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Clade: | †Rhabdodontomorpha Dieudonné et al., 2016 |
Subgroups | |
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Rhabdodontomorpha is a
Rhabdodon priscus Matheron, 1869 and Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai and Molnar, 1981; and all its descendants. Within the clade Zalmoxes and Mochlodon are also included.[1] The clade is characterized by the following synapomorphies:[2]
- the outline of the dorsal iliac margin is sigmoidal in dorsal view, with the postacetabular process deflected medialward and the pre-acetabular process deflected laterally
- the dorsal iliac margin is mediolaterally broader and swollen from above the ischiac peduncle anteriorly (present in Muttaburrasaurus) or above the postacetabular process all along (present in Zalmoxes spp.)
- the presence of a weak, dorsally convex ridge on the ventromedial side of their postacetabular process
- the ischiac peduncle of the ilium is lenticular and uniquely anteroposteriorly long
- the acetabulum is noticeably low
The group consists of small to large plant eaters from Europe and