ERTH 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ornithopod, Cranial Kinesis, Iguanodon

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: ERTH 2401
• Professor: Claudia Schroder- Adams

Document Summary

Cretaceous when the first flowering plants first appears (angiosperms) Or(cid:374)ithopoda = large herds, a(cid:271)u(cid:374)da(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) for (cid:862)du(cid:272)k (cid:271)ills(cid:863) Fossil record: ornithopoda (cid:862)(cid:271)ird foot(cid:863, still dealing with ornithischian dinosaurs, middle jurassic late cretaceous (not early, extensive fossil record as they were found world wide, e. g. Hypsilophoden (early cretaceous, europe: small specimen (cid:862)(cid:271)ird foot(cid:863, e. g. Iguanodon foot prints (germany) (cid:1007) separate (cid:862)toes(cid:863), (cid:373)iddle ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)erged to (cid:862)hoof- like(cid:863) stru(cid:272)ture. Othnielosaurus (late jurassic, na) small, bipedal animals with long limbs. Hypsilophodon small bi-pedal herbivores late cretaceous (europe: fleet-footed, fast as there was not too much weight to carry. Iguanodontia: monophyletic, middle jurassic late cretaceous, character features: Generally, are larger and more heavily built than basal ornithopods (up to 15m long) Hoof-like unguals reduction in number of phalanges. Hadrosauridae: the (cid:862)du(cid:272)k (cid:271)ills(cid:863, late cretaceous, na, sa, europe, asia and antarctica, very interested in the skull (cid:271)/(cid:272) of (cid:862)du(cid:272)k (cid:271)ill(cid:863) stru(cid:272)ture, e. g.