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Nodosauridae
Taxonomy
Nodosauridae was named by Marsh (1890). Its type is Nodosaurus. It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004) and Blows and Honeysett (2014).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ankylosauridae by Matthew (1915); it was reranked as the subfamily Nodosauridae by Huene (1948).
It was assigned to Ceratopsia by Marsh (1890); to Stegosauroidea by Hay (1902); to Orthopoda by Gilmore (1933); to Thyreophoroidea by Huene (1934); to Stegosauria by Marsh (1880), Marsh (1896), Lull (1921), Russell (1930) and Young (1935); to Apraedentalia by Huene (1948); to Thyreophora by Huene (1959); to Ankylosauroidea by Norman (1984) and Cooper (1985); to Ankylosauria by Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Simmons (1965), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Coombs (1978), Ostrom (1980), Galton (1980), McIntosh (1981), Santafé et al. (1982), Galton (1983), Russell (1984), Sereno (1986), Bakker (1986), Sanz (1986), Tumanova (1987), Blows (1987), Carroll (1988), Pereda-Suberbiola (1993), Pereda-Suberbiola (1994), Coombs and Deméré (1996), Carpenter et al. (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Barrett et al. (1998), Kirkland (1998), Sereno (1999), Ford (2000), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Peng et al. (2001), Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola (2003), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Ryan and Evans (2005), Lü et al. (2007), Lü et al. (2007) and Carpenter et al. (2008); and to Ankylosauria by Sánchez-Hernández et al. (2007), Osi and Makádi (2009), Parsons and Parsons (2009) and Blows and Honeysett (2014).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ankylosauridae by Matthew (1915); it was reranked as the subfamily Nodosauridae by Huene (1948).
It was assigned to Ceratopsia by Marsh (1890); to Stegosauroidea by Hay (1902); to Orthopoda by Gilmore (1933); to Thyreophoroidea by Huene (1934); to Stegosauria by Marsh (1880), Marsh (1896), Lull (1921), Russell (1930) and Young (1935); to Apraedentalia by Huene (1948); to Thyreophora by Huene (1959); to Ankylosauroidea by Norman (1984) and Cooper (1985); to Ankylosauria by Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Simmons (1965), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Coombs (1978), Ostrom (1980), Galton (1980), McIntosh (1981), Santafé et al. (1982), Galton (1983), Russell (1984), Sereno (1986), Bakker (1986), Sanz (1986), Tumanova (1987), Blows (1987), Carroll (1988), Pereda-Suberbiola (1993), Pereda-Suberbiola (1994), Coombs and Deméré (1996), Carpenter et al. (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Barrett et al. (1998), Kirkland (1998), Sereno (1999), Ford (2000), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Carpenter (2001), Pereda Suberbiola and Galton (2001), Peng et al. (2001), Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola (2003), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Ryan and Evans (2005), Lü et al. (2007), Lü et al. (2007) and Carpenter et al. (2008); and to Ankylosauria by Sánchez-Hernández et al. (2007), Osi and Makádi (2009), Parsons and Parsons (2009) and Blows and Honeysett (2014).
Subtaxa
Aletopelta, Animantarx, Antarctopelta, Edmontonia (syn. Denversaurus, Chassternbergia), Edmontoniinae, Glyptodontopelta, Hungarosaurus, Liaoningosaurus, Niobrarasaurus, Nodosaurinae, Nodosaurus (type genus), Panoplosaurinae, Panoplosaurus, Pawpawsaurus, Peloroplites, Polacanthus (syn. Euacanthus), Sarcolestes, Sauropelta, Sauropeltinae, Silvisaurus, Stegopelta, Struthiosaurinae, Struthiosaurus (syn. Leipsanosaurus, Pleuropeltus, Rhodanosaurus, Danubiosaurus, Crataeomus, Rhadinosaurus), Syngonosaurus (syn. Syngonosaurus macrocercus), Texasetes, Zhejiangosaurus, Zhongyuansaurus
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1867 | Acanthopholis horridus Huxley p. 65 |
| 1871 | Acanthopholis horridus Seeley p. 307 |
| 1879 | Acanthopholis horridus Prestwich p. 193 |
| 1879 | Acanthopholis horridus Seeley p. 596 figs. 2-3 |
| 1880 | Nodosauridae Marsh |
| 1888 | Acanthopholis horridus Lydekker p. 183 |
| 1890 | Nodosauridae Marsh |
| 1890 | Acanthopholis horrida Woodward and Sherborn p. 209 |
| 1896 | Nodosauridae Marsh p. 243 |
| 1902 | Nodosauridae Hay p. 497 |
| 1902 | Hylaeosauridae Nopcsa |
| 1902 | Acanthopholididae Nopcsa p. 101 |
| 1902 | Acanthopholis horridus Nopcsa p. 102 |
| 1904 | Acanthopholis horrida Lydekker p. 60 |
| 1918 | Palaeoscincidae Nopcsa |
| 1921 | Nodosauridae Lull p. 123 |
| 1923 | Acanthopholididae Nopcsa p. 106 |
| 1923 | Acanthopholidae Nopcsa p. 126 |
| 1928 | Acanthopholidae Nopcsa p. 73 |
| 1930 | Nodosauridae Russell p. 138 |
| 1933 | Nodosauridae Gilmore p. 3 |
| 1934 | Acanthopholidae Huene p. 184 |
| 1934 | Nodosauridae Huene p. 184 |
| 1934 | Acanthopholis horridus Stromer p. 66 |
| 1935 | Nodosauridae Young p. 24 |
| 1948 | Acanthopholidae Huene p. 95 |
| 1948 | Nodosauridae Huene p. 95 |
| 1956 | Acanthopholidae Romer p. 635 |
| 1956 | Nodosauridae Romer p. 635 |
| 1959 | Acanthopholinae Huene p. 122 |
| 1959 | Nodosauridae Huene p. 122 |
| 1960 | Acanthopholidae Lapparent p. 43 |
| 1964 | Acanthopholidae Casamiquela |
| 1964 | Acanthopholididae Kuhn p. 40 |
| 1964 | Acanthopholis horridus Kuhn p. 40 |
| 1964 | Nodosauridae Kuhn p. 44 |
| 1965 | Nodosauridae Simmons p. 69 |
| 1965 | Acanthopholidae Simmons p. 70 |
| 1965 | Acanthopholis horridus Simmons p. 70 |
| 1966 | Acanthopholidae Romer p. 370 |
| 1966 | Nodosauridae Romer p. 370 |
| 1970 | Acanthopholidae Swinton p. 244 |
| 1970 | Acanthopholis horridus Swinton p. 244 |
| 1970 | Nodosauridae Swinton p. 245 |
| 1977 | Acanthopholidae Rozhdestvensky p. 113 |
| 1978 | Nodosauridae Coombs, Jr. p. 143 |
| 1980 | Nodosauridae Galton p. 831 |
| 1980 | Nodosauridae Ostrom p. 23 |
| 1981 | Nodosauridae McIntosh p. 38 |
| 1982 | Nodosauridae Santafé et al. p. 98 |
| 1983 | Nodosauridae Galton p. 4 |
| 1984 | Nodosauridae Norman pp. 159-160 fig. 2 |
| 1984 | Nodosauridae Russell p. 29 |
| 1985 | Acanthopholidae Cooper p. 289 |
| 1985 | Nodosauridae Cooper p. 289 |
| 1986 | Nodosauridae Bakker p. 461 |
| 1986 | Nodosauridae Sanz p. 86 |
| 1986 | Nodosauridae Sereno |
| 1987 | Nodosauridae Blows p. 558 |
| 1987 | Nodosauridae Tumanova |
| 1988 | Nodosauridae Carroll |
| 1993 | Nodosauridae Pereda-Suberbiola p. 769 |
| 1994 | Nodosauridae Pereda-Suberbiola p. 136 |
| 1996 | Nodosauridae Carpenter et al. p. 25A |
| 1996 | Nodosauridae Coombs, Jr. and Deméré p. 319 |
| 1997 | Nodosauridae Sereno p. 443 |
| 1998 | Nodosauridae Barrett et al. p. 382 |
| 1998 | Nodosauridae Kirkland p. 273 fig. 3 |
| 1998 | Nodosauridae Sereno p. 61 |
| 1999 | Nodosauridae Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
| 2000 | Nodosauridae Ford p. 174 |
| 2000 | Acanthopholis horrida Olshevsky p. 101 |
| 2001 | Nodosauridae Carpenter p. 457 |
| 2001 | Nodosauridae Peng et al. p. 35 |
| 2001 | Nodosauridae Pereda Suberbiola and Galton p. 178 |
| 2001 | Nodosauridae Vickaryous et al. p. 1774 |
| 2003 | Nodosauridae Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola p. 163 |
| 2004 | Nodosauridae Vickaryous et al. p. 365 |
| 2005 | Nodosauridae Ryan and Evans p. 315 |
| 2007 | Nodosauridae Lü et al. p. 889 fig. 1 |
| 2007 | Nodosauridae Lü et al. p. 344 |
| 2007 | Nodosauridae Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 206 |
| 2008 | Nodosauridae Carpenter et al. p. 1090 |
| 2009 | Nodosauridae Osi and Makádi p. 239 fig. 10 |
| 2009 | Nodosauridae Parsons and Parsons p. 736 fig. 18 |
| 2014 | Nodosauridae Blows and Honeysett |
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