Talk:Ornithopoda

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I added a link to the (non-existent) Wikipedia article on "cursorial grazers," because this is a technical term and it seems perverse to have a link to "herbivore" but to assume readers know what a cursorial grazer is. Hopefully someone can write an article or stub - I'm not sure what the term means with any precision, so I'd best not have a go myself. --Jeff Medkeff | Talk 00:08, September 13, 2005 (UTC)

Browsers?[edit]

I think they would be more properly described as browsers. It may be presumed from their anatomy that they usually ate off the ground. Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:14, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

the article follows the Reliable Sources HammerFilmFan (talk) 18:20, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Size Range Inaccuracies?[edit]

In paragraph 3 of the Description section, it says that Shantungosaurus could reach a mass of 23 metric tonnes. Is there a source for this that I'm missing? Otherwise this should be amended, as I've never seen estimates for its mass exceed 16 tonnes, and as far as I can tell all other references to its mass in other articles use the 16 tonne estimate as well. Ballendorf (talk) 00:01, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No Beak?[edit]

In the Description section, in the sentence starting "They were also characterized..." (Paragraph 1, near the top), it states that one of the defining characteristics of Ornithopoda was "not developing a horny beak," which as far as I can tell, is completely incorrect. All Ornithopods (as far as I know) had beaks, (in fact I'm pretty sure the trait is ancestral to Ornithischia as a whole), so either this is just straight-up inaccurate, in which case it should be removed; is a mistake, and meant to say "developing a horny beak," in which case it needs correcting; or is referencing the original description/definition of the clade, in which case it is misleading, and needs to be sourced/cited and clarified to be outdated. Ballendorf (talk) 00:08, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]