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marginocephalian

marginocephalian adjective: of or relating to the †Marginocephalia, a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.

Adjective

marginocephalian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the †Marginocephalia, a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.

Noun

marginocephalian (plural marginocephalians)

  1. Any member of the †Marginocephalia.
    • Thus, they were able to corroborate previous hypotheses of overrepresentation of nodosaurid ankylosaurs and hadrosaurid ornithopods in marine sediments, whilst they also found that marginocephalians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, sauropods, and supposedly herbivorous theropods were positively...2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of marginocephalian

pluralmarginocephalians

Origin of marginocephalian

From taxonomic name Marginocephalia + -an.

Questions about marginocephalian

What does marginocephalian mean?
Marginocephalian means of or relating to the †Marginocephalia, a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.
What part of speech is marginocephalian?
Marginocephalian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near marginocephalian in the dictionary

  1. marginicidal
  2. margining
  3. marginirostral
  4. marginless
  5. marginlessness
  6. marginocephalian
  7. marginocephalians
  8. marginoporid
  9. marginoporids
  10. marginotomy
  11. margins

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