| 1. | Thyreophorans include various subgroups, including the suborders Ankylosauria and Stegosauria.
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| 2. | It is a member of the Stegosauria.
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| 3. | Ossified sternal plates have never been found with Stegosauria and perhaps the sternum was completely absent.
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| 4. | Thus defined, the Stegosauria are by definition the sister group of the Ankylosauria within the Eurypoda.
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| 5. | He placed the Stegosauria and Ornithopoda in the Ornithischia, and the Theropoda and Sauropoda in the Saurischia.
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| 6. | However, the species was later considered a " nomen dubium " in both reviews of Stegosauria.
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| 7. | A study by Maidment indicated that " Gigantspinosaurus " is the most basal known member of the Stegosauria.
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| 8. | "' Stegosauridae "'is a clade of Thyreophoran dinosaurs ( armoured dinosaurs ) within the suborder Stegosauria.
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| 9. | Even though phylogenetic analyses recognize " Paranthodon " as a stegosaurid, the type material actually bears no synapomorphies of Stegosauria.
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| 10. | Dinosaurs such as " Ankylosaurus ", as well as other Thyreophora ( armoured dinosaurs such as Ankylosauria and Stegosauria ), grew thick club.
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