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The Ornithischia were all plant eaters, as far as is known. In addition to a common pelvic structure, they share a number of other unique features, including a bone that joined the two lower jaws and distinctive leaf-shaped teeth crenulated along the upper edges. They had at least one palpebral, or “eyelid,” bone, reduced skull openings near the eyes and in the lower jaw (antorbital and mandibular), five or more sacral vertebrae, and a pubis whose main shaft points backward and down, parallel to the ischium. The earliest and most basal form is the incompletely known Pisanosaurus, from the Late ...(100 of 18558 words)