prosauropod
dinosaur infraorder
Also known as: Prosauropoda
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major reference
- In dinosaur: Sauropodomorpha
…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 from meat eaters. Sauropodomorpha are distinguished by leaf-shaped tooth crowns, a small head, and a neck that is…
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characteristics
- In saurischian
…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 to have given rise to the larger and more specialized sauropods, which remained one of the dominant dinosaur groups until the…
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