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A thyreos or thureos (Ancient Greek: θυρεός) was a large oval shield which was commonly used in Hellenistic armies from the 3rd century BC onwards. It was adopted from the Galatians , probably first by the Illyrians , then by the Thracians before becoming common in ancient Greece .
In the 4th century BC, the main type of mercenary infantry was the peltast, to the extent that this became a synonym for mercenaries in general.A few illustrations of the early 3rd century BC still show a small round pelte shield in use but by the mid-3rd century BC it has been replaced by the thyreos.
Thyreophora ("shield bearers", often known simply as "armored dinosaurs") is a group of armored ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the Early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous. Thyreophorans are characterized by the presence of body armor lined up in longitudinal rows along the body.
The Leukaspides (Greek: Λευκάσπιδες, lit. 'White Shields') were a group in the Antigonid Macedonian army.Scholars suggest two main possibilities for what precisely they were.
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The shield rested on a man's shoulders, stretching down to the knees. It was theorized they were designed for a mass of hoplites to push forward into the opposing army, a move called othismos, and it was their most essential equipment, though this is now an outdated theory. [3] [4] The shield had a convex face, like that of a shallow bowl. [5]
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The holotype of Thyreosaurus belonged to an adult individual with an estimated body length of 6 metres (20 ft), but it was not fully grown. It possessed unique dermal armor that has been compared to that of nodosaurid ankylosaurs, [4] consisting of asymmetrically sided oblong plates that were likely arranged recumbent on the back of the animal, instead of being held erect as in other stegosaurs.