Thyreophora ("shield bearers", often known simply as "armored dinosaurs") is a group of armored ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the Early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous. …

Nov 11, 2025 · The Thyreophora consist mainly of the well-known Stegosauria, the plated dinosaurs, and Ankylosauria, the armoured dinosaurs, as well as their more basal relatives, …

Aug 29, 2025 · •Thyreophorans represent the armored dinosaurs, and are a clade of (predominantly) quadrupedal ornithischians. •There are characterized by the presence of …

The Thyreophora are a group of small to quite large armored plant-eating dinosaurs. The most familiar are Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus, though there were many others.

The thyreophorans (members of Thyreophora) are the armoured batallion of dinosaurs containing Ankylosauria and Stegosauria. Even the biggest and baddest predator would approach these …

Thyreophora (thye-ree-OFF-or-ah) is one of three suborders of Ornithischia. (The other two suborders are: Ornithopoda and Marginocephalia) The Thyreophora group of dinosaurs is …

The Thyreophora are a group of small to quite large armored plant-eating dinosaurs. The most familiar are Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus, though there were many others.

The armoured dinosaurs, Thyreophora, were a diverse clade of ornithischians known from the Early Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous.

Thyreophora is the name of the so-called armored dinosaurs, which existed from the Early Jurassic period until the end of the Cretaceous period. The name Thyreophora can be …

Primitive Thyreophora • Scelidosaurus (Early Jurassic, Europe (maybe North America, China). Larger than Scutellosaurus, about 4 m long. Armor was proportionately much larger. Heavy …