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Sauropoda (/ s ɔː ˈ r ɒ p ə d ə /), whose members are known as sauropods (/ ˈ s ɔːr ə p ɒ d z /; [1] [2] from sauro-+ -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs. Sauropods had very long necks, long tails, small heads (relative to the rest of their body), and four thick, pillar-like legs.
Sauropoda is a clade of dinosaurs that consists of roughly 300 species of large, long-necked herbivores and includes the largest terrestrial animals ever to exist. The first sauropod species were named in 1842 by Richard Owen, though at the time, he regarded them as unusual crocodilians.
[2] In 2024, van der Linden et al. described Ardetosaurus viator as a new genus and species of diplodocine sauropods based on MAB011899, the holotype specimen. The generic name, Ardetosaurus is a combination of the Latin ardērē, meaning "to burn", and the Ancient Greek σαῦρος (sauros), meaning "lizard". This refers to the holotype ...
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is a construction and management simulation video game developed and published by Frontier Developments.A sequel to Jurassic World Evolution (2018) and set after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the game was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and Series S on November 9, 2021.
The data around sauropods evolution, as Novas points out, is largely based on a few formations mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. However, other beds in places such as Tanzania, specifically the Canadon Asfalto and Canadon Calcereo formations reveal a more diverse and widespread peleobiology of eusauropods in the Late Jurassic period. [8]
Sauropods, which include the largest terrestrial animals of all time, were a very wide-ranging and successful group. They first appeared in the Early Jurassic and soon spread across the world. By the time of the late Jurassic, North America and Africa were dominated by the diplodocids and brachiosaurids and, by the end of the Late Cretaceous ...
Sauropodomorpha (/ ˌ s ɔːr ə ˌ p ɒ d ə ˈ m ɔːr f ə / [3] SOR-ə-POD-ə-MOR-fə; from Greek, meaning "lizard-footed forms") is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives.
Trackways of sauropods like Apatosaurus show that they may have had a range of around 25–40 km (16–25 miles) per day, and that they could potentially have reached a top speed of 20–30 km (12–19 miles) per hour. [12] The slow locomotion of sauropods may be due to their minimal muscling, or to recoil after strides. [64]