sauropod
IPA: sˈɔrʌpɑd
noun
- A member of the Sauropoda suborder of dinosaurs
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Examples of "sauropod" in Sentences
- A diplodocid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of England.
- Sauroposeidon proteles, a new sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Oklahoma.
- Pes anatomy in sauropod dinosaurs: implications for functional morphology, evolution, and phylogeny.
- Adaptive radiation in sauropod dinosaurs: bone histology indicates rapid evolution of giant body size through acceleration.
- The evolution of manus shape in sauropod dinosaurs: implications for functional morphology, forelimb orientation, and phylogeny.
- As I’ve now mentioned a few times, the detailed anatomy of the A. fragillimus vertebra (as figured by Cope) shows us that this sauropod was a diplodocoid.
- Herds of Camarasaurus, a long-necked herbivore known as a sauropod, travelled almost 200 miles from the plains to the mountains in a bid to find food and water.
- In a new, as-yet-unpublished sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, it’s been claimed that the first and fifth metacarpals virtually touch on the posterior surface of the hand, but this is unique so far as we know (this animal wouldn’t have left horseshoe-shaped tracks, but subcircular ones … if the proposed interpretation is valid, and it might not be).
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