Definition of Suborder Ornithopoda

1. Noun. Widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Ornithopoda

suborder Megaloptera
suborder Menotyphla
suborder Menurae
suborder Microchiroptera
suborder Mugiloidea
suborder Myomorpha
suborder Mysticeti
suborder Myxiniformes
suborder Myxinoidei
suborder Natantia
suborder Nematocera
suborder Nothosauria
suborder Odontoceti
suborder Ophidia
suborder Ornithomimida
suborder Ornithopoda (current term)
suborder Oscines
suborder Osteostraci
suborder Otides
suborder Pachycephalosaurus
suborder Percoidea
suborder Petromyzoniformes
suborder Pinnipedia
suborder Plesiosauria
suborder Prosauropoda
suborder Prosimii
suborder Reptantia
suborder Ruminantia
suborder Sauria

Literary usage of Suborder Ornithopoda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural by Richard Lydekker (1888)
"Journ. Geol. Soc.' vol. xxvi. pi. iii. figs. 1, 2. Made in the Museum, 1887. Suborder ORNITHOPODA. Premaxilla (when known) edentulous entirely or anteriorly ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Tyrannosaurus, from the Cretaceous of Montana, US-A., has a skull more than a metre in length. The herbivorous Dinosaurs of the suborder Ornithopoda ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... herbivorous dinosaurs (qv) of the suborder Ornithopoda, whose remains are found fossil in the Jurassic rocks of western North America. ..."

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