- Sauropoda - Wikipedia
The name Sauropoda was coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, and is derived from Ancient Greek, meaning "lizard foot" [14] Sauropods are one of the most recognizable groups of dinosaurs, and have become a fixture in popular culture due to their enormousness
- Sauropod | Gigantic Herbivores, Long Necks Unique Limbs . . .
Sauropod, any member of the dinosaur subgroup Sauropoda, marked by large size, a long neck and tail, a four-legged stance, and a herbivorous diet These reptiles were the largest of all dinosaurs and the largest land animals that ever lived
- Sauropods Guide: Long-Necked Dinsoaurs | AMNH
A guide to the sauropods: diplodocus, apatosaurus, brachiosaurus, and more
- What are Sauropods? (with picture) - AllTheScience
Sauropoda is one of the two great lineages of herbivorous dinosaurs alongside Ornithischia, which includes duck-billed dinosaurs, triceratops, stegosaurus, and many others
- Sauropod - Sauropoda - One of the most popular dinosaurs.
The first phylogenetic definition of Sauropoda was produced in 1997 by Salgado and colleagues They defined the clade as a node-based taxon, containing “the most recent shared ancestor of Vulcanodon karibaensis and Eusauropoda, as well as all of its descendants ”
- Sauropoda Animal Facts - Sauropoda - A-Z Animals
Sauropoda was a massive, long-necked dinosaur that holds the distinction of being the largest land animal to ever walk the planet This group includes some of the most popular and well-known genera of dinosaurs, including Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Apatosaurus, and Brontosaurus
- Sauropoda - University of California Museum of Paleontology
Sauropods are a subgroup of the saurischian, or "lizard-hipped," dinosaurs This group of quadrupedal (four-legged), herbivorous animals had a relatively simple body plan which varied only slightly throughout the group Early relatives of the sauropods, the Late Triassic plateosaurs or prosauropods, may have occasionally stood on their hind legs True sauropods, such as Diplodocus shown here
- Sauropodomorpha - Wikipedia
Wide and robust skulls evolved on multiple occasions within Sauropoda The rebbachisaurid Nigersaurus had a relatively wide skull, and similarly wide and robust skulls evolved in Camarasauridae, Brachiosauridae, Euhelopodidae, and other somphospondylans
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