Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various saurischian dinosaurs of the group Prosauropoda of the Triassic and Jurassic Periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, serrated teeth, and large thumb claw, and including plateosaurus.

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  • noun Any member of the Prosauropoda, a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs with a long neck and small head, forelimbs shorter than the hindlimbs, and a very large thumb claw for defense.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Prōsauropoda, group name : Greek pro-, before; see pro– + New Latin Sauropoda, group name; see sauropod.]

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Examples

  • I've been wanting to make an entry about two more new dinosaurs, the velociraptorine dromaeosaurid Linheraptor exquisitus from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, and the "prosauropod" Seitaad ruessi from the Early Jurassic of Utah.

    "Fate is my destroyer. I was ambushed by a lie." greygirlbeast 2010

  • I've been wanting to make an entry about two more new dinosaurs, the velociraptorine dromaeosaurid Linheraptor exquisitus from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, and the "prosauropod" Seitaad ruessi from the Early Jurassic of Utah.

    "Fate is my destroyer. I was ambushed by a lie." greygirlbeast 2010

  • -- Seitaad is a sauropodomorph, often called a "prosauropod" or "sauropod precursor," and was most likely an herbivore.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • -- Seitaad is a sauropodomorph, often called a "prosauropod" or "sauropod precursor," and was most likely an herbivore.

    innovations-report 2010

  • And there's been more from the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, papers on the "rauisuchian" archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis; the ontogeny of Stegosaurus; ontogenetic and taxonomic implications of pattern and transition of surficial bone texture of the centrosaurine frill; and Adeopapposaurus, a new prosauropod dinosaur from Argentina.

    "Fill the night with stories. The legend grows." greygirlbeast 2009

  • It's great, but I thought this was a "sauropod gallery", not a "sauropod AND prosauropod gallery".

    Life's Time Capsule: me, 3D and Plateosaurus... davidmaas 2009

  • It's basically your standard early prosauropod, but from the numbers of specimens found, it must have been a particularly successful species.

    Massospondylus embryos - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • It's basically your standard early prosauropod, but from the numbers of specimens found, it must have been a particularly successful species.

    The Panda's Thumb: July 2005 Archives 2005

  • A Canadian-led team of international researchers has unearthed the 190-million-year-old nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus - predating previously known nesting grounds by 100 million years - at an excavation site in South Africa.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2012

  • Seitaad, preliminary phylogenetic analyses were performed using two of the most exhaustive datasets published to date representing each of the proposed prosauropod topologies

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010

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