Phylogeny of Archosauria (including Aves)

Modern Birds are more closely related to saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs (such as Tyrannosaurus) than to ornithischian ("bird-hipped") dinosaurs (such as Triceratops). [Hip structures in birds and ornithischia are analogous, not homologous].


Text material © 2002 by Steven M. Carr