NOUN
- having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's
How To Use ankylosaur In A Sentence
- Over 800+ cataloged specimens from seven species of dinosaur, including the type specimen of the first Jurassic ankylosaur Mymoorapelta, have been recovered from this bonebed. Cooperative Management of Paleontological Resources on Federal Lands in Mesa County, Colorado
- The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
- His ankylosaur print is the first such print of the species from the Jurassic Period and the largest print of any ankylosaur from the Age of the Dinosaurs. First Jurassic Ankylosaur track found
- Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs (which do, in fact, branch fairly close to birds on the dinosaur bush).
- The green styracosaur at front right changes colour when placed in hot water and the spiky ankylosaur thing next to it glows in the dark. Archive 2006-08-01
- These were the fragmentary remains of an armored dinosaur, an ankylosaur.
- These early ankylosaur or glyptodont analogues often had widely-flared skulls, ornamented with irregular blobs of bone, looking like half-melted wax.
- Approximately 19% of the sample consists of bones of the ankylosaur Mymoorapelta, mostly osteoderms and lateral spines 2 individuals. Archive 2009-05-01
- 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.
- The thyreophorans are the armored ornithischians: the stegosaurs and ankylosaurs.