Nodosaurids Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Late Cretaceous,
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Gargoyleosaurus skeleton cast | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Clade: | †Euankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae Marsh, 1890 |
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Synonyms | |
Acanthopholididae Nopcsa, 1902 |
Nodosauridae is a family of ankylosaurian dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous periods in what is now Asia, Europe, North America, and possibly South America. While traditionally regarded as a monophyletic clade as the sister taxon to the Ankylosauridae, some analyses recover it as a paraphyletic grade leading to the ankylosaurids.