prosauropodn.adj.
/prəʊˈsɔːrəpɒd/, U.S. /proʊˈsɔrəˌpɑd/ Palaeontology.
A. n.
A dinosaur of the group Prosauropoda, which comprises long-necked herbivores that were often partly or wholly bipedal and were widespread in the late Triassic and early Jurassic.The Prosauropoda are now usually treated as an infraorder, constituting a basal group of the suborder Sauropodomorpha.
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prosauropod1951
1951 C. C. Young in Palaeontologia Sinica 134 88 For the sake of convenience we may discuss the prosauropods together.
1971 E. C. Olson Vertebr. Paleozool. ii. viii. 354 Some genera..among animals often classed as prosauropods were intermediate in structures related to gait, being only partially quadrupedal.
1990 M. J. Benton Vertebr. Palaeontol. vii. 147 (caption) The plant-eating prosauropod Plateosaurus from Germany.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating a dinosaur of the group Prosauropoda.
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prosauropod1965
1965 Proc. Linn. Soc. 176 211 Each of the two prosauropod families transferred from the Carnosauria..bears..a striking resemblance to one of two existing prosauropod families.
1985 D. Norman Illustr. Encycl. Dinosaurs 75/3 Other prosauropod material comes from the Navajo Sandstone of northern Arizona.
1999 Science Oct. 763/2 Our..sites have yielded abundant remains of a variety of diapsid reptiles, including two prosauropod dinosaurs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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