Okay, I am now going to talk to you about my favorite type of dinosaurs......SAUROPODS!!!!!!!!!
Sauropods are a infraorder of Saurischian (lizard-hipped) dinosaurs. Sauropodmorphs ('lizard foot forms') are genreally quadruped herbivors with long necks and often large thumb claws, small heads, and teeth shaped for cropping and chewing plants. Their long necks allowed them to browse tall trees, and thier body's were often rather large.
Although the close reletive of saurpods (prosauropod) died out during the jurassic period, Sauropods endured to the end of the Mesozoic Era. The Sauropods live between 200 million and 65 million years ago and are still considered the largest animals to have live on land. In order to support their large bodies sauropods had hollows carved out of thier vertebrae and massive hip girdles fused to their backbones by four sacral vertebrae to form solid suport for their bodies and large tails.
Sauropods are further divded into various families including Brachiosauridae, Titanosauridae and Diplodocidae. The largest of the Sauropods is often considered to be Argentinosaurus, and the longest being Diplodocus. For all those Aussies out there, you should all know at least one Sauropod well ..... Elliot! (One of the many dinosaurs from winton, and Australia's largest)
Okay so that is my not so interesting report on Sauropods, cya all later.
Sauropods are a infraorder of Saurischian (lizard-hipped) dinosaurs. Sauropodmorphs ('lizard foot forms') are genreally quadruped herbivors with long necks and often large thumb claws, small heads, and teeth shaped for cropping and chewing plants. Their long necks allowed them to browse tall trees, and thier body's were often rather large.
Although the close reletive of saurpods (prosauropod) died out during the jurassic period, Sauropods endured to the end of the Mesozoic Era. The Sauropods live between 200 million and 65 million years ago and are still considered the largest animals to have live on land. In order to support their large bodies sauropods had hollows carved out of thier vertebrae and massive hip girdles fused to their backbones by four sacral vertebrae to form solid suport for their bodies and large tails.
Sauropods are further divded into various families including Brachiosauridae, Titanosauridae and Diplodocidae. The largest of the Sauropods is often considered to be Argentinosaurus, and the longest being Diplodocus. For all those Aussies out there, you should all know at least one Sauropod well ..... Elliot! (One of the many dinosaurs from winton, and Australia's largest)
Okay so that is my not so interesting report on Sauropods, cya all later.
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Hey, it's my favorite types of dinos too!!! SO glad that see like-minded people there))
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