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    three different genera: Pachyspondylus, Leptospondylus and Massospondylus. Massospondylus was separated from the other two genera on the basis of its...
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    of the Stormberg Group that the fossils of Massospondylus and other dinosaurs were found. Massospondylus dinosaurs hatched from eggs not much larger...
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    all animals more closely related to Plateosaurus engelhardti than to Massospondylus carinatus. Galton and Upchurch, 2004 proposed the following definition:...
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    Plateosauria as the last common ancestor of Plateosaurus engelhardti and Massospondylus carinatus, and its descendants. Peter Galton and Paul Upchurch in 2004...
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    more robust than specimens of Massospondylus. Despite the fact that Ngwevu could be distinguished from Massospondylus, there are several shared features...
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    discovery of gizzard stones recovered near fossils include: Psittacosaurus Massospondylus Sellosaurus Omeisaurus Apatosaurus Barosaurus Dicraeosaurus Seismosaurus...
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  • Euparkeria, Gorgosaurus, Iguanodon, Lambeosaurus, Mamenchisaurus, Massospondylus, Megalosaurus, Monoclonius, Mosasaurus, Nothosaurus, Ornitholestes,...
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    November 2011, found Adeopapposaurus, Coloradisaurus, Glacialisaurus, Massospondylus, Leyesaurus and Lufengosaurus to be massospondylids. This result supports...
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    Massospondylidae Yunnanosauridae Plateosauridae (Plateosaurus > Yunnanosaurus, Massospondylus) Sauropoda (Saltasaurus > Plateosaurus) ? Anchisauridae ? Melanorosauridae...
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    Aeolosaurus Aepisaurus Aepyornithomimus Aerosteon Aetonyx – junior synonym of Massospondylus Afromimus Afrovenator Agathaumas – possible synonym of Triceratops Aggiosaurus...
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  • instead are more similar to juvenile Massospondylus, considering Ignavusaurus probably synonymous with Massospondylus. Meanwhile, a cladistic analysis presented...
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    feathers to keep the eggs warm. An embryo of the basal sauropodomorph Massospondylus was found without teeth, indicating that some parental care was required...
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  • these time periods include Megapnosaurus, Dracovenator, Melanorosaurus, Massospondylus, Euskelosaurus, Heterodontosaurus, Abrictosaurus, and Lesothosaurus...
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    Adeopapposaurus Coloradisaurus Glacialisaurus Ignavusaurus? Leyesaurus Lufengosaurus Massospondylus Ngwevu Pradhania Sarahsaurus Xingxiulong? Sauropodiformes...
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    Adeopapposaurus Coloradisaurus Glacialisaurus Ignavusaurus? Leyesaurus Lufengosaurus Massospondylus Ngwevu Pradhania Sarahsaurus Xingxiulong? Sauropodiformes...
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    Cañón del Colorado Formation of San Juan, Argentina. It was similar to Massospondylus. Four partial skeletons with two partial skulls are known. The type...
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    Adeopapposaurus Coloradisaurus Glacialisaurus Ignavusaurus? Leyesaurus Lufengosaurus Massospondylus Ngwevu Pradhania Sarahsaurus Xingxiulong? Sauropodiformes...
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    species has since been reclassified again and is probably a juvenile of Massospondylus carinatus. G. sinensis was also referred here, but appears to be a distinct...
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    Temporal fenestrae in relation to the other skull openings in the dinosaur Massospondylus, a type of diapsid....
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    embryo inside. The oldest known dinosaur eggs and embryos are from Massospondylus, which lived during the Early Jurassic, about 190 million years ago...
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    would have lived alongside an abundance of sauropodomorph taxa like Massospondylus, the ornithischian Lesothosaurus, and crocodylomorphs like Protosuchus...
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    partial leg bones were salvaged. Hortalotarsus would have been similar to Massospondylus, reaching around 3 metres (9.8 ft) long when fully grown. Hortalotarsus...
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    re-examination in 2005. Joined, furcula-like clavicles have also been found in Massospondylus, an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph. The tide began to turn against the...
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    another specimen intermixed with the bones of a prosauropod, likely Massospondylus. Later in 1968, Raath and D. F. Lovemore discovered additional Jurassic...
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    member of Sauropodomorpha most closely related to massospondylids like Massospondylus and Lufengosaurus. In his 2018 thesis on dinosaur interrelationships...
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    Massospondylidae (which includes the relatively well-known dinosaur Massospondylus) and Riojasauridae (which includes Riojasaurus) as well as the Sauropoda...
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    The most common dinosaur species is of the sauropodomorph species Massospondylus carinatus. Other species include Blikanasaurus cromptoni, Aardonyx celestae...
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    Adeopapposaurus Coloradisaurus Glacialisaurus Ignavusaurus? Leyesaurus Lufengosaurus Massospondylus Ngwevu Pradhania Sarahsaurus Xingxiulong? Sauropodiformes...
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    Adeopapposaurus Coloradisaurus Glacialisaurus Ignavusaurus? Leyesaurus Lufengosaurus Massospondylus Ngwevu Pradhania Sarahsaurus Xingxiulong? Sauropodiformes...
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    proportionally larger than the adults, similar to the related sauropodomorphs Massospondylus and Mussaurus. Qianlong was added to a phylogenetic analysis and found...
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