dinosauromorph

dinosauromorph, any of a group of archosaurian reptiles that includes dinosaurs and all other reptiles bearing a closer evolutionary relationship to dinosaurs than to pterosaurs. Dinosaurs include birds and other theropods, sauropodomorphs, and ornithischians—familiar animals that embody the concept of “Dinosauria” erected by British anatomist and paleontologist Richard Owen in 1842, long before the present diversity and relationships of dinosaurs were known. In contrast, the clade Dinosauromorpha includes all these dinosaurs plus some other dinosaur-like...