Meanings
- not comparablebiologyOf or relating to the †Marginocephalia, a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.
plural marginocephalians
- biologyAny member of the †Marginocephalia.
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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.
2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
From taxonomic name Marginocephalia + -an.
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