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Taxon: Genus †Ankylosaurus Brown, 1908 (dinosaur)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Ornithischia - (Family) Ankylosauridae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†*Eurypoda* (Clade) Sereno 1986		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†*Genasauria* (Clade) Sereno 1986		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†*Ankylosauria* (Clade) Osborn 1923		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†*Ankylosauridae* (Clade) Brown 1908		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†*Ankylosaurinae* (Clade) Nopcsa 1918		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†*Thyreophora* (Clade) Nopcsa 1915		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†*Neornithischia* (Clade) Cooper 1985		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†*Nodosauridae* (Clade) Marsh 1890		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†*Stegosauria* (Clade) Marsh 1877		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).

Current position

†Ankylosaurinae (Subfamily) Brown, 1908

Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252.

Alternative positions

†Ankylosauridae (Family) Brown, 1908

Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997)

Historical positions

†Ankylosaurinae (Subfamily) Brown, 1908

Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252.

Number of Subtaxa

2025

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†1s

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Last updated: 21 Sep 2025