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Sauropodomorpha
dinosaur suborder
Also known as: sauropodomorph
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- In dinosaur: Sauropodomorpha
Included in this group are the well-known sauropods, or “brontosaur” types, and their probable ancestral group, the prosauropods. All were plant eaters, though their relationship to theropods, along with the fact that the closest relatives of dinosaurs were evidently carnivorous, suggests that they evolved…
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saurischians
- In saurischian
…other main saurischian group, the Sauropodomorpha, consisted mostly of quadrupedal herbivores, although their first members were relatively small and bipedal. Its most primitive members were the prosauropods, which included the plateosaurs. These creatures died out in the Early Jurassic Period (206 million to 180 million years ago), but they appear…
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