- are
known as
sauropods (/ˈsɔːrəpɒdz/; from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a
clade of
saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.
Sauropods had very long...
-
Cretaceous sauropods in
North America was
first discovered in 1922, when
Charles Whitney Gilmore described Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. The term "
sauropod hiatus"...
- lizards") †Eusauropoda ("true
sauropods") †Turiasauria (often large,
widespread sauropods) †Neosauropoda ("new
sauropods";
columnar limbs) †Diplodocoidea...
- (2005). "Structure and
evolution of a
sauropod tooth battery". In
Curry Rogers, K.; Wilson, J.A. (eds.). The
Sauropods:
Evolution and
Paleobiology (PDF)....
- to
modern birds,
though sauropods had
relatively small brains.
Various uses for the
single claw on the
forelimb of
sauropods have been proposed. One suggestion...
-
diplodocid family as well as in non-diplodocid
sauropods, such as Mamenchisaurus. Like
other sauropods, the m**** (front "feet") of
Diplodocus were highly...
- neck. However, the
question of
whether sauropods were
endothermic or
ectothermic plays a
major part in how
sauropods were muscled, as
endotherms have particularly...
-
known sauropods.
Argentinosaurus likely possessed 10
dorsal vertebrae, like
other titanosaurs. The
vertebrae were
enormous even for
sauropods; one dorsal...
- line is to
consider as
sauropods all
species more
closely related to
derived sauropods than Melanorosaurus, one of the most
sauropod-like taxa historically...
-
Brachiosaurus and
other sauropods with
large noses could have had
ornamental nasal crests. It has been
proposed that
sauropods,
including Brachiosaurus...
