Ornithopod Temporal range: Lower Jurassic – Upper Cretaceous
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Infraorder: | Ornithopoda Marsh, 1881
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Ornithopoda is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods, that started out as small, bipedal running grazers and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world, dominating the North American land.