Thyreophora

† Thyreophora is the clade of armored ornithischian dinosaurs including stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, with fossil material from Late Cretaceous China. This successful herbivorous lineage persisted from the Early Jurassic until the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

Diet & Feeding

Herbivore

Thyreophora was a plant-eating dinosaur. Herbivores typically fed on ferns, cycads, conifers, and other vegetation available during their era. Many herbivorous dinosaurs developed specialized teeth and digestive systems for processing tough plant material.

Time Period

Cretaceous Late Mesozoic Era

Thyreophora lived during the Cretaceous Late period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 100,5 to 66,0 million years ago.

La era final de los dinosaurios, con especies icónicas como Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops y Velociraptor. Los dinosaurios alcanzaron su máxima diversidad antes de que el catastrófico impacto de un asteroide en el cráter Chicxulub pusiera fin a la Era Mesozoica.