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Diplodocus, depicted with spines limited to the mid-line of the back. Diplodocids were generally large animals, even by sauropod standards. Thanks to their long necks and tails, diplodocids were among the longest sauropods, with some species such as Supersaurus vivianae and Diplodocus hallorum estimated to have reached lengths of 30 meters (100 ft) or more. [3]
The word "Flagellicaudata" refers to long, whip-like tails of that animals (flagellum is a Latin word meaning "whip" and cauda means in Latin "tail"). [ 6 ] The phylogenetics of Diplodocoidea were reviewed in 2015 by Emanuel Tschopp, Octavio Mateus and Roger Benson with a specimen-level phylogenetic analysis, as well as a species-level analysis.
By the late Cretaceous, titanosaurs were the dominant group of neosauropods, especially on the southern continents. In North America and Asia, much of their role as large herbivores had been supplanted by hadrosaurs and ceratopsians , although they remained in smaller numbers all the way until the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction.
In the mountains of central China, a “large” pregnant creature perched at the edge of a forest. Down the scaly predator’s back ran a line of “heart-shaped” spots.
They state that the feeding ranges for sauropods like Diplodocus were smaller than previously believed and the animals may have had to move their whole bodies around to better access areas where they could browse vegetation. As such, they might have spent more time foraging to meet their minimum energy needs.
High up on a mountain in central China, a “large”-eyed creature sat on a plant, hidden in plain sight. The spotted animal had managed to escape notice for years. When scientists finally found ...
More than seven years after the bodies of best friends Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14, were found near the historic Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana ...
Apatosaurinae (the name deriving from the type genus Apatosaurus, meaning "deceptive lizard") is a subfamily of diplodocid sauropods, an extinct group of large, quadrupedal dinosaurs, the other subfamily in Diplodocidae being Diplodocinae. Apatosaurines are distinguished by their more robust, stocky builds and shorter necks proportionally to ...