Alternative spelling: Thyreophorina
Full reference: B. F. Nopcsa. 1915. Die dinosaurier der Siebenbürgischen landesteile Ungarns [Dinosaurs of the Transylvanian regions of Hungary]. Mitteilungen aus den Jahrbuch der Königlich Ungarnischen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 23:1-24
Parent taxon: Genasauria according to P.-E. Dieudonné et al. 2020
See also Arbour et al. 2014, Arbour and Evans 2017, Bakker 1986, Benton 1990, Butler et al. 2007, Butler and Sullivan 2009, Butler et al. 2008, Casamiquela 1964, Cooper 1985, de Valais et al. 2003, Han et al. 2012, Herne et al. 2019, Huene 1927, Huene 1929, Huene 1948, Huene 1954, Huene 1958, Leahey et al. 2015, Madzia et al. 2018, Murray et al. 2019, Nopcsa 1923, Norman 1984, Norman et al. 2004, Rauhut 2003, Riguetti et al. 2022, Rozadilla et al. 2021, Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007, Sereno 1986, Sereno 1997, Sereno 1998, Sereno 1999, Ulansky 2014, Weishampel 2004, Yang et al. 2013 and Zheng et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Agilisaurus, Cerapoda, Eocursor, Hexinlusaurus
Subtaxa: Andhrasaurus Ankylosauria Bienosaurus Bienosaurus lufengensis Emausaurus Jakapil Lusitanosaurus Lusitanosaurus liasicus Omosaurus hastiger Peishansaurus Scelidosauria Scelidosauridae Scelidosaurus Scelidosaurus arizonensis Scutellosaurus Sinopeltosaurus Stegosauria Stegosaurides Stegosauromorpha Tatisaurus Taveirosaurus Thyreophoroidea Yuxisaurus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore