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Plateosauridae is a
family of
plateosaurian sauropodomorphs from the Late Tri****ic of Europe, Greenland,
Africa and Asia.
Although several dinosaurs have...
- late-surviving
Cretaceous prosauropods with
adaptations similar to
those of ornithischians. He
found segnosaurs similar to
prosauropods in the
morphology of...
- and the
large theropods and
prosauropods into Pachypodosauria,
which he
considered ancestral to the
Sauropoda (
prosauropods were
still thought of as carnivorous...
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dinosaurs to the Anchisauria: the Melanorosauridae. The more
common prosauropods Plateosaurus and M****ospondylus were
placed in the
sister clade Plateosauria...
- quadrupedal, and
became the
largest animals to ever walk the Earth. The
prosauropods,
which preceded the sauropods, were
smaller and were
often able to walk...
- long necks, and long tails) †Unaysauridae (primitive,
strictly bipedal "
prosauropods") †Plateosauria (diverse;
bipeds and quadrupeds) †M****ospondylidae (long-necked...
- Galton, P. M. (1985).
Notes on the Melanorosauridae, a
family of
large prosauropod dinosaurs (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha). Geobios, 18(5), 671-676. "Table...
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included several plateosaurid dinosaurs, as well as non-plateosaurid
prosauropods.
Systematic research by
Galton drastically reduced the
number of genera...
- tetanurans—appeared, and
joined those groups like the coelophysoids,
prosauropods and the
sauropods that had
continued over from the Tri****ic. Accompanying...
-
indeterminate sauropodomorph,
possibly more
closely related to the
plateosaurian prosauropods. In 1855, the
original type
specimen of
Anchisaurus polyzelus, AM 41/109...
