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    Sauropoda (redirect from Sauropod)
    are known as sauropods (/ˈsɔːrəpɒdz/; from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs. Sauropods had very long...
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  • The sauropod hiatus is a period in the North American fossil record for most of the Late Cretaceous noted for its lack of sauropod remains. It may represent...
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  • line is to consider as sauropods all species more closely related to derived sauropods than Melanorosaurus, one of the most sauropod-like taxa historically...
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    Diplodocus (category Late Jurassic sauropods)
    /daɪˈplɒdəkəs/, or /ˌdɪploʊˈdoʊkəs/) is an extinct genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic of North America. The first fossils...
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    This epoch is well known for many famous types of dinosaurs, such as the sauropods, the theropods, the thyreophorans, and the ornithopods. Other animals...
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  • Castle Story (redirect from Sauropod Studio)
    Castle Story is a sandbox and real-time strategy game developed by Sauropod Studio. Funded through crowdfunding website Kickstarter in 2012, the game launched...
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    Brachiosaurus (category Late Jurassic sauropods)
    Brachiosaurus (/ˌbrækiəˈsɔːrəs/) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154 to 150 million years ago...
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    Brontosaurus (category Multispecific sauropod genera)
    brontē "thunder" and σαῦρος, sauros "lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in present-day United States during the Late Jurassic...
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    Nigersaurus (category Monotypic sauropod genera)
    Nigersaurus (/niːˈʒɛərsɔːrəs, ˈnaɪdʒərsɔːrəs/) is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about 115 to 105...
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    Apatosaurus (category Multispecific sauropod genera)
    (/əˌpætəˈsɔːrəs/; meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel...
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    Argentinosaurus (category Sauropods of South America)
    Argentinosaurus (meaning "lizard from Argentina") is a genus of giant sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina...
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    group of sauropod dinosaurs, including genera from all seven continents. The titanosaurs were the last surviving group of long-necked sauropods, with taxa...
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    Sauropod neck posture is a subject occasionally debated among scientists, with some favoring postures closer to horizontal whilst others a more upright...
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    Sauroposeidon (category Sauropods of North America)
    meaning "lizard earthquake god", after the Greek god Poseidon) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and...
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    Museum of Natural History. "Alan the Dinosaur" is the name given to a sauropod caudal vertebra (YORYM:2001.9337) found in 1995 in the Saltwick Formation...
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  • Living dinosaur may refer to: Birds, the only known living dinosaurs Living fossils, extant taxa that closely resemble organisms otherwise known only from...
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    Bruhathkayosaurus (category Monotypic sauropod genera)
    (/bruːˌhæθkeɪoʊˈsɔːrəs/; meaning "huge-bodied lizard") is a controversial genus of sauropod dinosaur found in the Kallamedu Formation of India. The fragmentary remains...
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    lizards") †Eusauropoda ("true sauropods") †Turiasauria (often large, widespread sauropods) †Neosauropoda ("new sauropods"; columnar limbs) †Diplodocoidea...
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    Supersaurus (meaning "super lizard") is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. The type species...
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    quadrupedal sauropod dinosaurs. Brachiosaurids had long necks that enabled them to access the leaves of tall trees that other sauropods would have been...
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    is a dubious, chimeric genus of large saurischian dinosaur, possibly a sauropod, from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Morrison Formation of Oklahoma,...
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    Diplodocoidea is a superfamily of sauropod dinosaurs, which included some of the longest animals of all time, including slender giants like Supersaurus...
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    Macronaria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs. Macronarians are named after the large diameter of the nasal opening of their skull, known as the external...
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    22.1–38.2 tonnes. The sauropods were the longest and heaviest dinosaurs. For much of the dinosaur era, the smallest sauropods were larger than almost...
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    been observed to improve buoyancy control. Some extinct animals such as sauropod dinosaurs appear to have used stones to grind tough plant matter. A rare...
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    Amargasaurus (category Early Cretaceous sauropods)
    Amargasaurus (/əˌmɑːrɡəˈsɔːrəs/; "La Amarga lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous epoch (129.4–122.46 mya) of what is now...
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  • to an ichnogenus of dinosaur, having been made by an unknown genus of sauropod. As an ichnogenus, the taxon is represented by (and named for) a 90-metre...
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    (/ˌbæroʊˈsɔːrəs/ BARR-oh-SOR-əs) was a giant, long-tailed, long-necked, plant-eating sauropod dinosaur closely related to the more familiar Diplodocus. Remains have...
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    Camarasaurus (category Multispecific sauropod genera)
    quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs and is the most common North American sauropod fossil. Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation, dating...
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    Mamenchisaurus (category Multispecific sauropod genera)
    Pronunciation Guide M or spelling pronunciation /məˌmɛntʃɪˈsɔːrəs/) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known for their remarkably long necks which made up nearly half...
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