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| Largest Land Animals of All Time |
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| Sauropodomorphs- Natures' most amazing experiment in animal gigantism |
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| Two Types of Sauropodomorphs |
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| Prosauropods and Sauropods |
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| Sauropodomorph- Evolutionary Novelties |
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-heads small relative to body size
- spatulate teeth
-atleast 10 elongated vertebrae in long necks
- short feet
-large claws on their forefeet |
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-one of the first ev. diversifications of plant eating dinos
-not ancestral to sauropods, but actually a close RELATIVE |
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-bipedal, footprints were quadrupedal
- long necks to reach high vegetation
-gastroliths to breakdown veggies |
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-gigantic- 55 tons, 40 meters long
-quadrupedal
-herbivores |
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| Sauropod- Evolutionary Novelties |
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| Huge size, long necks and tails, tiny heads, dorsal nostrips, 75-100 genera |
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| Diplodocid and Camarasaurids |
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-lightly built
-LONG neck
-Diplodocus- characteristic Diplocid |
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BEST KNOWN SAUROPOD
- different from Diplocids in Skulls! Nasal opening large and on sides, large spatulate teeth |
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Other Sauropods- Brachiosaurus(most resembled Camarasaurids
-HEAVIEST land animal of all time.. 22 metters from snout to tip of tail |
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HUGE SCAPULA- thought to be a Brachiosaurus
-actually a Diplodocus- Longest Sauropod |
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| Upper Jurassic of N. New Mexico- portions of tail, back, pelvis, hand limb of an enormous Diplodocus |
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| limb structures designed to bear great weight on land |
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| the length and shapes of neural spines |
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