Infraclass
Valid Extinct

Phytodinosauria

Bakker 1986

Phytodinosauria is a group of dinosaurs proposed in 1986, combining the Sauropodomorpha and Ornithischia as sister groups, conceptualized as a superorder of herbivorous dinosaurs excluding the carnivorous Theropoda. This hypothesis has been weakly or not replicated in most subsequent research, in which studies either combine Theropoda and Sauropodomorpha within Saurischia or Theropoda and Ornithischia within Ornithoscelida.

Temporal range
PBDB occurrences
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Group
Dinosaures
Terrestrial
Phytodinosauria
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Brontosaurus excelsus in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Brontosaurus excelsus Inv no. YPM 1980 (holotype specimen of the species) Discoverer William H. Reed 1879 Locality Como Bluff, Wyoming Age Morrison Formatian, Jurassic period, 150 million years ago © Ad Meskens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Phytodinosauria Infraclass
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Bibliography
Original description
R. T. Bakker. 1986. The Dinosaur Heresies. William Morrow and Company, Inc, New York DOI ↗